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

amirghasemi@alborzi.com amiri1 at hotpop.com
Tue Aug 3 16:06:27 UTC 2004


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.


----- 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.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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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.
>
> 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 -
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