Re: Strange system behavior

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 11:19:07 -0700 (PDT) Paul Goyette
<paul%whooppee.com@localhost> wrote:
> Yes - way back at the beginning - almost two weeks ago.  Ran for
> more than 10 complete passes, with zero errors.

I don't know how many passes 10 is, but I have found some hardware
that won't flake out until it has been running memtest for 20 or 30
hours.

> > 2) I have a machine that consistently fails while building NetBSD
> > under NetBSD. It does fine at building NetBSD when running Linux.
> > I tried reporting the apparent concurrency bugs a long time ago,
> > but was largely ignored. If (and only if) you run memtest86 for a
> > day and it passes, try cross-building NetBSD on the box under
> > Linux and see if it works.
> 
> Yuck.  You mean I gotta figure out how to install, set-up, and boot 
> Linux?  Ouch!
> 
> :)

I hate to say it, but that's pretty much trivial these days. Take
Ubuntu CD or thumb drive install, put in, answer three or four
questions, done.

From there you just have to unpack the NetBSD sources and tell it to
cross build. The one issue is you'll need to install things like gcc
and gmake, but that's pretty easy (there's a GUI).

Perry
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Perry E. Metzger                perry%piermont.com@localhost