This happened to a colleague, we got around it by disabling L2 cache in bios, try it
'01392 410960 È079 404 28861 š[EMAIL PROTECTED] " www.will595.btinternet.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Alan Shoemaker Sent: 23 September 2002 21:36 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] RC3 crashes at "Freeing unused kernel memory / 9.0 BETA - Bug report / Installation forwarded to originator of report. when replying, please cc this email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [Cooker] RC3 crashes at "Freeing unused kernel memory / 9.0 BETA - Bug report / Installation Date: 23 Sep 2002 15:26:10 +0200 From: Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Tried Mandrake 9 RC3 on my laptop (AMD-K6 II 333MHz, 64mb > ram, 6gb hd, trident 9660 (I thought) videocard 2mb, > ehh...)... had some problems: > 1. System won't boot up completely, it stops at line > "Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed" (my swap is > 400Mb, linux is only OS) Maybe there is a misdetection of k6-2 (as was for C3). Transmitted to kernel ppl. > 2. during install, my networkcard (3com 3c589c is not > recognized - pcmcia of course) and no drivers seem to be > available, the 3c59x series don't work I have a 3c574_cb-based, the pcmcia.img and the cdrom-based installs seem to detect and configure correctly the pcmcia net device. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/ ------------------------------------------------------- -- Alan
