Re: I can't ever boot-up with my new computer!!!

[Francesco Bochicchio <fbochicchio@galactica.it>]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 10:46:32AM -0700, Karl Matheson wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I can't install Linux, because when I boot of the 2.1 CD, it dies, showing
> me the stack. It looks like this:
> 
>     <SNIP>...</SNIP>
>     scsi : 0 hosts
>     scisi : detected total
>     Partition check:
>     hda : hda1 hda2
>     RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
>     general protection: 0000
>     CPU: 0
>     EIP: 0010:[<0017f759>]
>     EFLAGS: 00010206
>     eax: 00000001 ebx: 00004a88 ecx: 0000000 edx: 03fe3d94
>     esi: 03fe3d98 edi: 03fe4a9c ebp: 00003d80 esp: 0038f714
>     ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 0018 gs: 0018 ss: 0018
>     Process swapper (pid: 1, process nr: 1, stackpage=0038f000)
>     Stack:  0038f78c 00000004 00000000 00000004 03fe4a98 0000000000
> 0000000000 0000003f
>                 000001ff 00004a84 00000000 0017fff9 00e40020 00091c14
> 00000009 00000006
>                 00000001 0038fca8 00000000 0038fd3c 000000004 00000216
> 0000001e 0000011e
>     Call Trace:  [<0017fff9>]  [<00130c00>]  [<0010ac15>]  [<00121550>]
> [<001097fa>]  [<001095
> 12>]  [<00109519>]  [<0010976c>]
> Code: 8d 76 00 8b 15 4c ese 27 00 8a 44 15 00 8b 4c 24  24 88 04 11
> 
> Thanks,
> Cameron Matheson
>
Possibly (just a guess), you have a processor which is not supported by the
kernel shipped with Debian 2.1 (linux 2.0.36 is quite old, after all)? 
For instance, if you have an AMD Atlon (like me ), you cannot boot from 
Debian 2.1. 
I think there are others CPUs not compatible with Debian 2.1, but I don't 
knwow where the list is ( somewhere in www.debian.org, I think )

If this is the case, there are several solutions :
- wait for debian 2.2 CDs - it should not be long, now
- download Debian 2.2 from the net
- Install from debian-based commercial distribution which has newer kernels
  (Corel, Storm and Libranet come to my mind), then use package manager
  tools to add others debian packages and remove the ones you don't like. 
- boot from a floppy made by someone with a kernel 2.2.x, then install
  debian from hard disk (???? never tried this ????)

Ciao.
-- 
FB