030914 ed tharp wrote: >> i have now reassembled the box & tried it out. >> >> it seems to be an improvement at the BIOS level: >> it recognises the processor as 'AMD XP 2500+' (correctly) >> & defaults the DRAM clock to 166 MHz (previously it set it to 133 MHz ). >> >> however, there's a new problem: Linux won't start! >> i had installed Mdk 9.1 , which is still there of course, >> & Lilo comes up properly & tries to boot the system, >> but fails with a kernel panic, which is quite new (Linux was ok before). >> the lines on the screen are as follows: >> >> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference >> at virtual address 00000000 >> printing eip: c02360d0 >> *pde = 00000000 Ooops: 0000 >> >> there follow a dozen lines of registers, call traces etc, then: >> >> <0> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! >> spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7 >> >> (the last line occurs only some of the time: >> it's the printer IRQ, but i haven't defined a printer on the box yet). > did you reset the bios for no plug and play?
no. > and did you try and run hard drake during boot up? no. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto
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