Re: Boot Failures.......
Chris Ridley <cridley@drtel.net> writes:
> Trying to install 2.2r2 on an intel i486 dx2 (80486-dx2-s) machine,
> (clone - DTK Computer), 6mhz, 24MB RAM, 428 MB HDD (Segate ST3491A),
> Award Bios v4.50g (10). Have the CD ROM set - fails on executing
> boot.bat from the CD ROM but it dies after:
>
> hda: ST3491A-XR, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: FX4820T, ATAPI CDROM drive
>
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c1fffff9........
> Aiee, killing interrupt handler
[...]
> So I tired using a boot disk (got disk image from your site and tried
> image from CD) and it is ok...until...
>
> hda: ST3491A-XR, ATA DISK drive
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
[...]
> And that is where she hangs. I looked at the help files and there did
> not seem to be any that were applicable - though I did try no387 (its
> an old machine) but it made no diff. Do we have a memory problem?
It could be bad RAM, it could be other stuff. Have you looked
through the boot-prompt HOWTO and tried various flags ?
You can try playing with the arguments to exclude certain memory
ranges. Be sure the BIOS shadowing and caching options are off.
Sorry I can't be more specific. Sometimes getting x86 hardware and
linux to get along takes a lot of patience and effort.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onshore.com.....<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
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