E T wrote:
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> Hello,
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> Mandrake 7.0.2 just refuses to be installed on my system (booting
> from a CD-ROM).
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> I tried several times (including the "most default" installation),
> but it keeps crashing in the middle of installing the packages.
>
> Here's the post-mortem:
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> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff0105
> current->tss.cr3 = 07f11000, %cr3 = 07f11000
> *pde = 00000000
> Oops : 0002
> CPU : 0
> EIP : 0010 : [<c011b0a4>]
> EFLAGS : 00010217
>
> .... snip ...
>
> Process runinstall2 (pid:9, process nr: 9, stackpage = c7f15000)
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> My PC is nothing special:
> Athlon 650 MHz on Biostar M7MKA motherboard
> 128MB PC100 SDRAM
> 1 IDE harddrive (20Gb with the first 2Gb left for Windoze)
>
> By the way, in the background, perl keeps complaining about the locale,
> and X cannot find SecurityPolicy...
>
> What could this possibly be??? Please help!
>
> --ET.
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Well,
Media
CD Drive
BIOS� (some early ones wrapped around themselves doing MTRRs for the Athlon)
Media (but not poorly made--too much ink on one side of the label
introducing dynamic imbalance and eccentricity so that tracks cannot be
properly read--a new bugaboo of high-speed drives)� This makes sense if
the inner tracks are reasonably readable and the outers are not.
It appears it did accept your HDD which is another hurdle.
Civileme
