On Wednesday 01 November 2006 15:45, Bill McNeill wrote: > The machine is hard hung, so I'm not in a debug shell and I can't page > up to see what came before the segment fault. Unfortunately, I can't > see what was loading before the fault: the very top of the screen is > filled up with the register dump and whatnot. OK. But still, the installer worked without problem, so we should be able to solve this. > I don't know how to figure out what was running when the seg fault > occurred. I don't have a working shell so I can't read any log files, > nor can I cat /proc/modules or ls /dev. Please give us any information that you _can_ see on the screen. I know that copying that manually is a pain, but without the info we cannot help! Another option, if the laptop has a serial port, you have another box to connect it to and a null-modem cable, is to boot over serial console. That should give you the full log of boot messages. Cheers, FJP
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