signal 11 at sbin loader

[David Rush]

I ran into the dreaded sig11 when installing on a P90 system (I think it 
was my P90... altho coulda been my 486 66MHz).
Anyhoo, following the suggestions at the bitwizard site (see below), I 
started disabling some of the fancy schmancy motherboard features and the 
system has been rock solid ever since.

I think it was one of the caching mechanisms that did it.  Once I turned 
off a bunch of things that I didn't have to have, the sig11 went away and I 
never looked back.  Perhaps I could play around to get some performance 
features back, but to me it's not worth the trouble for that particular 
machine.

This particular P90 system has been one of the best computing values I've 
ever invested in.  I bought the used motherboard at a swap fest for $35, 
added $50 worth of used RAM, and stuck it in a case I already had (took out 
a 386 board) with a small hard disk.  After a while I spent $130 or so on a 
10 GB disk.  It just sits quietly in the corner and runs (up time is over 
180 days now).

David

At 10/9/01 09:28 PM -0500, phase at booyaka.com wrote:
> > trying to install redhat 7.0
> > what would cause a signal 11 sbin loader error.
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>ahh, the dreaded sig11.  i got this while trying to install redhat 7.0
>on a machine with a cyrix 486SLC25 and 4MB of RAM.  i'll never try that
>again.
>
>http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/faqs/rhl_general_faq/s1-install.html
>(search for "signal 11")
>
>http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/
>
>good luck
>
>phase
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