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

[Bob McClure Jr]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 08:36:27PM +0430, amirghasemi at alborzi.com wrote:
> Hi again,
> I Checked My RAM.It has one error and I changed the bad ram.but I still have
> the  Error.
> Please help me .
> PS:I found a bug about my problem on redhat BUGZILLA but I didn't find what
> to do.the bug is:
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=84785
> 
> THX A lot Again.

If I may jump in ... I'm surprised Rick didn't mention pulling and
reseating cards and the CPU.  Subtle corrosion can develop over time,
which is easily wiped off by that procedure.

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick Stevens" <rstevens at vitalstream.com>
> To: <amirghasemi at alborzi.com>; "Getting started with Red Hat Linux"
> <redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 11:17 PM
> Subject: Re: Can't Install RedHat Linux 9 on Cyrix ....
> 
> 
> > 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.
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > 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.
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens at vitalstream.com -
> > - VitalStream, Inc.                       http://www.vitalstream.com -

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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