Kernel panics

[Mark Walker]

Outside of the MacOS, all the diagnostics tools do not indicate problems,
are there any for Linux that diagnose RAM or hard drives.
I am using a cpu upgrade from Sonnet, Crescendo GE 400.

> At 8:11 PM -0700 9/1/02, Mark Walker wrote:
>> How does one fix that?  My recent install of YDL 2.3 is unusable due to
>> kernel panics.
>> I've used Linux distros from RedHat 6 -7.3 and Mandrake 8 and have not had
>> as many problems as I've had with YDL.
> 
> If you get them all the time, for no apparent reason, then I have to
> reverse myself and say it probably is bad hardware.  For some reason
> I assumed you were talking about a one-time panic or something tied
> to specific usage patterns.  The 2.4 series PowerPC kernel port is
> mature enough that it shouldn't panic in general use.
> 
> The most likely suspect would be RAM.  If the RAM is good another
> thing to look at is the CPU.