Kernel panic on CDROM install of potato
I have just recieved the following error message when installing potato for the
first time. I used the the line 'linux mem=128m' at the boot prompt. My system
is a K6-2 500 with 128m of RAM. Other specifics cheerfully provided if it will
help.
Checking 'hlt' instruction ... ,1. Unable to handle kernel paging request at
virtual address e7c200b0
current -> tss.cr3 = 001000, %cr3 = 00101000
*pde=00000000
Oops: 0000
CPU : 0
EIP : 0010:[<c010db32>]
EFLAGS : 00010896
eax: 00000000 ebx: c02f7f90 ecx: c02539f0 edx: 00000001
esi: 20000001 edi: 00000000 ebp: c02f7f90 esp: c02f7f48
ds: aff0 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process Swapper (pid: 0, process nr: 0, stackpge = c02f7000
Stack: 00000000 00000000 c02f7f90 00000000 c031b000 c0106000 c02f7f88 c010abb2
00000000 c02f7f90 c02b3978 00000000 00098800 c010af0f 00000000 c02f7f90
00000000 c010abec 00000000 00000001 00000001 00098800 c0106000 00000000
Call trace: [<c0106000>] [<c010abb2>] [<c010af0f>] [<c010abec>] [<c0106000>]
[<c025099e>] [<c0106000>] [<c0100175>]
code: d8 31 c0 b0 00 e6 80 e4 40 e6 80 0f b6 80 0f b6 d0 e4 40 25 ff
Aiee, killing interrupt handler
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task
In swapper task - not syncing
My first instinct was to add the 'no-hlt' option to the boot prompt, and while I
could get to the "Install Base System Stage", attempting to do so would result
in a dialog box showing:
File Error:
There was a problem extracting the base system from
/instmnt/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/base2_2.tgz
Hidden beneath the box was the end of an error message reading 'on fault'.
Trying the command myself revealed that the full mesage is 'Segmentation fault'
In the third console, there was the message:
Jun 16 20:41:39 (none) user.info dbootstrap [128] unexpected end of file from
"(null)"
I have tried to be as thorough as possible here, and I hope that someone can
help me. Should any more information be helpful, ask, and I will do whatever I
can to provide it.
Nathan Crane
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Nathan Crane nathancr@asu.edu
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right"
-Salvor Hardin
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