Can't Install RedHat Linux 9 on Cyrix ....

[Rick Stevens]

Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 08:36:27PM +0430, amirghasemi at alborzi.com wrote:
> 
>>Hi again,
>>I Checked My RAM.It has one error and I changed the bad ram.but I still have
>>the  Error.
>>Please help me .
>>PS:I found a bug about my problem on redhat BUGZILLA but I didn't find what
>>to do.the bug is:
>>http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=84785
>>
>>THX A lot Again.
> 
> 
> If I may jump in ... I'm surprised Rick didn't mention pulling and
> reseating cards and the CPU.  Subtle corrosion can develop over time,
> which is easily wiped off by that procedure.

That's a good suggestion, Bob.  Yes, I missed it.  I've had people
looking over my shoulder most of the time over the last few days
demanding attention and I just missed it.

Doh! :-(

>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Rick Stevens" <rstevens at vitalstream.com>
>>To: <amirghasemi at alborzi.com>; "Getting started with Red Hat Linux"
>><redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
>>Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 11:17 PM
>>Subject: Re: Can't Install RedHat Linux 9 on Cyrix ....
>>
>>
>>
>>>amirghasemi at alborzi.com wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi all,
>>>>I have a Cyrix 6x86 MX system and my mainboard name  is TOPGUN with 1MB
>>>>L2 Cache.
>>>>when I boot from redhat linux cd to install it for the first time I get
>>>>the following error and keyboard and system hangs.
>>>
>>>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>---------------------------------------------
>>
>>>>Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor
>>>>mode.... <1> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address
>>>>C0000000.
>>>>
>>>>printing eip:
>>>>c01143eb
>>>>*pde = 00001063
>>>>*pte = 00000025
>>>>
>>>>Oops: 0003
>>>>CPU: 0
>>>>ep: 0060:[<c01143eb>] not tainted
>>>>eflags: 00010206
>>>>Eip is at (2.4.20-6 Boot)
>>>>eax: 00000001 ebx: 00001000 ecx: 00000001 edx: c0000000
>>>>esi: 00000163 edi: c0105000 ebp; 0004e000 esp: c0289fd8
>>>>ds: 0068 es: 0068 ss: 0068
>>>>
>>>>process swapper (pid : 0, stack page = c0289000)
>>>>stack: c028ff96 c0000000 0000015e 000004b9 c02902d1 00000000 00059800
>>>>c028a601 c02a6f00 c010018c
>>>>
>>>>call trace:
>>>>
>>>>code: 88 0a 31 c0 c3 56 53 bb 00 a0 28 c0 81 fb 00 40 2a c0 73 4f
>>>><0> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task! In idle task - not
>>>>syncing.
>>>
>>>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>---------------------------------------------
>>
>>>>I don't know really which part of my PC caused this.I tried this comands
>>>>but none of them don't helped me: linux noprobe,linux noapic,linux text
>>>>
>>>>Please help me to get started with Linux World.
>>>
>>>The first thing is to check your RAM as an oops this early in the boot
>>>is usually indicative of bad RAM.  Don't assume that the memory is good
>>>just because the system will run Windows.  Linux flogs RAM much harder
>>>than Windows and marginal memory WILL fail.  I've seen it far too many
>>>times.
>>>
>>>If you're using Fedora Core 1 or 2 (and possibly Red Hat 9, I can't
>>>remember), boot from the first CD and at the "boot:" prompt, try
>>>entering "memtest86".
>>>
>>>If you don't have memtest86 on the CD, try downloading it from
>>>http://www.memtest86.com.
>>>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens at vitalstream.com -
>>>- VitalStream, Inc.                       http://www.vitalstream.com -
> 
> 
> Cheers,


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