Re: 2.6 kernel boot crashing

["Francesco P. Lovergine" <frankie@debian.org>]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 08:40:44AM -0700, Thomas E. Vaughan wrote:
> 
> ----------BEGIN HAND-COPY FROM SCREEN----------
> Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
> PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
> PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f5f50
> PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf000:0x6d5a, dseg 0xf000
> general protection fault: 0000 [#1]
> CPU:    0
> EIP:    0098:[<00001f1c>]   Not tainted
> EFLAGS: 00010083
> EIP is at 0x1f1c
> eax: 000022ec  ebx: 0000005d  ecx: 00010000  edx: 00000001
> esi: f7fa1cd4  edi: 00000015  ebp: f7fa0000  esp: f7fa1efa
> ds: 00b0  es: 00b0  ss: 0068
> Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo=f7fa0000 task=c1b21900)
> Stack: 000002ec 22ec1d8e 00000000 8f9d0015 0006c7b3 00010001 1f4c8f3c 0015c7ba
>        1f4c0000 c7b31f28 00060001 70190606 01060106 007b6e74 0000007b 00a00000
>        6e3000b0 00a86df6 00000082 000b0000 00010090 00a80000 00b00000 00a00001
> Call Trace:
> 
> Code: Bad EIP value
>  <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
> ----------END HAND-COPY FROM SCREEN----------
> 

There are good probability that you have some ram problem. Run memtest86
in standalone mode to check it.

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine