Can't Install RedHat Linux 9 on Cyrix ....

[Rick Stevens]

amirghasemi at alborzi.com wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a Cyrix 6x86 MX system and my mainboard name  is TOPGUN with 1MB 
> L2 Cache.
> when I boot from redhat linux cd to install it for the first time I get 
> the following error and keyboard and system hangs.
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> 
> Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor 
> mode.... <1> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 
> C0000000.
>  
> printing eip:
> c01143eb
> *pde = 00001063
> *pte = 00000025
> 
> Oops: 0003
> CPU: 0
> ep: 0060:[<c01143eb>] not tainted
> eflags: 00010206
> Eip is at (2.4.20-6 Boot)
> eax: 00000001 ebx: 00001000 ecx: 00000001 edx: c0000000
> esi: 00000163 edi: c0105000 ebp; 0004e000 esp: c0289fd8
> ds: 0068 es: 0068 ss: 0068
> 
> process swapper (pid : 0, stack page = c0289000)
> stack: c028ff96 c0000000 0000015e 000004b9 c02902d1 00000000 00059800 
> c028a601 c02a6f00 c010018c
> 
> call trace:
> 
> code: 88 0a 31 c0 c3 56 53 bb 00 a0 28 c0 81 fb 00 40 2a c0 73 4f
> <0> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task! In idle task - not 
> syncing.
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> 
> I don't know really which part of my PC caused this.I tried this comands 
> but none of them don't helped me: linux noprobe,linux noapic,linux text
> 
> Please help me to get started with Linux World.

The first thing is to check your RAM as an oops this early in the boot
is usually indicative of bad RAM.  Don't assume that the memory is good
just because the system will run Windows.  Linux flogs RAM much harder
than Windows and marginal memory WILL fail.  I've seen it far too many
times.

If you're using Fedora Core 1 or 2 (and possibly Red Hat 9, I can't
remember), boot from the first CD and at the "boot:" prompt, try
entering "memtest86".

If you don't have memtest86 on the CD, try downloading it from
http://www.memtest86.com.
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