Re: I can't ever boot-up with my new computer!!!
I thought this was a potential bad memory problem. When I get these kinds of errors
consistently I grab my memtest86(check freshmeat.net) boot disk and check it out. But
I could be totally wrong on this.
Francesco Bochicchio wrote:
> 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.
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> FB
>
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