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Re: Help:General protection fault in Linux??????
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dsb3)
Thu Oct 29 19:26:48 1998
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:28:59 -0600 (CST)
From: dsb3 <dsb3@earthlink.net>
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On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Alexander Woodby wrote:
>Well, the computer doesn't even come up any more, just halts on the POST
>with
>CMOS checksum error - Defaults loaded
>
sounds like the CMOS battery might be low. it says the checksum is wrong,
not the settings are wrong...
>and fdisk shows...
>
>/dev/sda1 * 1 1 64 514048+ 83 Linux native
>/dev/sda2 65 65 128 514080 83 Linux native
>/dev/sda3 129 129 500 2988090 83 Linux native
>/dev/sda4 501 501 554 433755 82 Linux swap
>
>It doesn't look to me that swap is on? What did I miss? Shouldn't I
>have 433755 megs of swap space, not 130?
>
the size is listed in blocks, not megs. 433M is, well, quite a lot larger
than I'm sure your drive is.
dave
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