Re: Installation problems
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Antonino Murador wrote:
> I have an Asus A1000 series notebook so equipped:
>
> I tried to install potato and I did the following steps:
>
> 1. I defragmented my HD
> 2. Launched the installation CD1
> 3. Created a 1,1 GB Linux native partition on /dev/hda2 and a Linux swap
> partition on /dev/hda3
> 4. Created a bootable floppy (no boot from HD)
>
> At the end of the installation process I correctly got the login prompt and
> everything seemed to be ok. But booting from the diskette was not ok and I
> got the message:
> "kfree: bad obj c345c298".
> I tried to reinstall with the same result. I am a Linux novice and I don't
> know how to solve the problem.
>
Have you tried to boot the system with the rescue floppy? So
at the "boot:" prompt type " rescue root=/dev/hda2 " ?
This way you know if your installation succeed. If it works
then there is something wrong with your bootfloppy.
BTW, the message you get is unknown to me.
Good luck,
Dirk
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