On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 03:04:34PM +0000, qyron wrote: > I've found a bug on what I think it's Debian installer currently packed > with Lenny. > > Here is the message (displayed previous to the installer actually starts) > transcription word by word, as displayed on my screen: > > Decompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. > PCI: BIOS Bug: MCFG area at e0000000 is not E820-reserved > PCI: Not using MMCONFIG. > > What actually happens is that the installer will let choose language, > keyboard and locale settings, retrieve the hardware profile of the machine > and when starting to verify the pool data will alt. On diferent ocasions it > stopped on section C, E and D. The system will then freeze completely, with > CD drive, HDD and mouse (on GUI installer) completly blocked. I was forced > to shutdown the machine by hardware switch, because it becomes completely > blocked. > > This can also occur when verything CD/DVD image integrety. I assume that > any other operation may block the system randomly. > > I hope I have been useful and not only making spam. Have pitty on a noob... > > Regards,
Does you computer boot with any other OS (ex. a live CD)? You should run memtest on it. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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