Re: Odd install problem...
Using "ramdisk1" and putting the root disk into the second floppy drive, I
get:
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
invalid operand: 0000
The floppy drive stays lit up, but nothing happens.
> I'm trying to install Linux for the first time, on a truly ancient Cyrix
200
> machine. Upon booting with the first 'rescue' disk and putting in the
'root'
> disk when prompted, I immediately get a big stack trace that pushes any
> useful information up off the top of the screen.
>
> I have successfully booted from these two disks on _this_ machine, so they
> are not at fault, I have used different SIMMS, and installed an ancient IO
> card in case it was the onboard IDE channels or something at fault (it
_is_
> copying stuff from disk at this stage) but I still get exactly the same
> problem. I figure if it was a CPU problem I'd know about it by now, since
> I'm halfway through installing 98 right now, bloody thing's taking ages...
> In fact its just this minute bluescreened with "A fatal exception 0E has
> occurred at 0028:C0002800 in VXD VMM(01) + 00001800." at the detecting PnP
> hardware stage. Damn.
>
> Any idea what could be causing this?
>
>
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