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. > -- > FB > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
