Re: Help!

[Shri Shrikumar <shri@vitalstate.co.uk>]

On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 16:17, W&H Jones wrote:
> To whom it may concern,
> 
> I have 3 cd's of Debian potato2.219pre17.
> The system is a Pentium 233 asus motherboard with matrox video card sound card and a network card and a 4gb fujitsu with 64 mg mem.
> I think is good enough for what I read. I want to use it as an ISP server.
> I was doing extremely well until the wife call me for dinner, I was in the proses of setting the password by the time I came back the screen went to sleep and could not wake it up.
> Switched it off and can not get it going.
> If I boot it from the floppy it goes to it loading and it get to the stage of "Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> Kernel panic. No init found. Try passing init=option to Kernel."
> 
> If I load from cd it shows a window explaining that:
> "This si a Debian installation System, boot floppies 2.2.23 keep it once................................
> this installation set was built on 2001-04-14 by Adam Di Carlo.
> if I choose to "continue" it shows a blue screen with a message partially covered by ASCII #. Then if I press enter, "next config keyboard" I enter then "error loading the keymap i386/querty................. follow by blue screen with the warning "bad tar header,skipping.
> 
> Finally 
> "Aiee, Killing interrupt handler
> Kernel Panic:attempt to kill the idle task in interrupt handler- Nosyncing.
> 
> Could you please advice what to do next.
> many thanks.

You should probably have put in a more informative subject line. That
would've helped you get a quicker response.

To answer your problem, all I can suggest is to try the woody floppy
images. If that still doesn't work, post here again.


Shri

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