[K12OSN] Kernel Panic!!

["Barbara Drake" <barbara drake sd72 bc ca>]

Thanks everyone for helping -- please don't give up on me yet!! I looked for
information on nobiospnp, but haven't found much. Could someone tell me more
about that, thanks.


Darryl said:
I think the Bad EIP value might be caused by a BIOS bug with some of the
computers.  I don't remember for sure, but I thought that there was a
nobiospnp option you could pass to lilo fix it.

Darryl

Barbara Drake said:
> Thanks Norbert.
> This is the third time I have installed the default ltsp, and I know the
> services are active because 6 ws boot. The ws have from 48 to 64MB of Ram.
> Have you heard of similar issues with the new version, should I try an
> older
> version of the K12ltsp?
> I corrected the NFS swap still nothing, I had trouble with video set to
> "auto" (the screen would go blank), so I changed it to vesa.

Barbara Drake said:
On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 03:01, Barbara Drake wrote:
> Hi everyone, I am very new with Linux.  I have just set up my first LTSP
at
> an elementary school using the new 4.0 release of K12LTSP.  This is a
pilot
> that will hopefully go District wide if I can get past this kernel error.
I
> have 32 Compaq Deskpro's that seem to have 3 different architectures (if
> that is relevant).
> I purchase new 3com cards for the lab and I know they work, but only 6
> machines are reaching the login screen.
>
> I am getting two different messages:
>
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
00000292
> printing eip:
>
> Code: Bad EIP value
> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
>
> and
>
> Unable to handle paging request at Virtual address 5911acc8
> printing eip:
>
> Code: 00 a0 ff c2 00 .....
> Kernel panic: Attemped to kill init!
>
>
> I have tried swapping ram, I added use_nfs_swap = Y just in case it is a
ram
> issue, but no luck.  I swap NIC just in case I got a bad batch but that
> wasn't it.  My boss is ready to give up but I thought someone must have
the
> answer.  PLEASE HELP!!