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

amirghasemi@alborzi.com amiri1 at hotpop.com
Mon Aug 2 18:32:17 UTC 2004


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.
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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. 
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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.

THX a lot.

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