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Sounded like too small of a debouncing cap/s on/around the nic, undersized vcc/gnd planes and/or too small of a power supply to handle peak current. The other
by fubarred 12y ago
Sounded like too small of a debouncing cap/s on/around the nic, undersized vcc/gnd planes and/or too small of a power supply to handle peak current.
The other thing, once a system is booting, is always make sure RAM, storage, CPU and nics are all working, so test those individually: memtest86+ (or rowhammer or latest memtest86 non-plus), iozone, prime95, iperf or their equivalents.
- duskwuff 12y agoThe real explanation is near the end of the post -- the Ethernet controller was inadvertently left doing DMA to a buffer that overlapped with the initramfs.