On Mon, Feb 23, 2015, at 07:39 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > > > I see a crash elsewhere now. Tried installation 3 times again and all > > > crashed at different places. > > > > > > One of them is: > > > > > > rc: note: sys: trap: fault write addr=0x7ffffee00000 pc=0x20d790 > > > rc 9024: suicide: sys: trap: ... > > > > Perhaps I should add that I tried the 386 install as well and that > > crashed randomly as well. > > that's quite wierd. either (a) we're corrupting memory on a regular > basis, and your machine has an unfortunate memory layout that > gets hit by this issue, or (b) there actually is something special about > your machine. > > * is the internal disk presenting an ahci interface?
I don't know. I will check today evening. > * have you tried memtest86. i expect it to pass, but it's always good > to be sure. No, I haven't. I will do that too tonight. > * can you point me at a specs page? <http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices/acer-c7-chromebook> The spec of my machine is this: - CPU - Celeron 1007u - 16GB SSD - 2 GB RAM (rest as per the above page) I modified the boot rom to have coreboot + seabios payload so that I can install a non-chromeos system. It used to happily run Debian but was locking up occasionally. Perhaps it has a bad RAM or a faulty DDR initialization in the coreboot.
