Richard, Ray:
Thanks guys! I think you may have hit the nail on
the head. I believe I have a hardware problem since
when I reboot my machine, etc. (for the umpteenth
time), it bombs at slightly different places (always
after I set up my partitions in Druid). I had no idea
my CPU was overclocked. How can I tell if my problem
is CPU (AMD K6/266) or memory (64M)? I have succeeded
in loading MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 on the machine.
By the way, I'm trying to load a commercial product,
Linux-Mandrake 6.0 with RH 6.0 (the label on the box
says its "enhanced"). It came with a CD and a boot
disk. I've had the best luck loading with autoboot.bat
in the dosutils directory on the CD. When I first
tried it, I did not have MS-DOS and tried to boot with
the linux boot disk. For some reason, the boot disk
won't work any more (fails trying to load vmlinuz).
Appreciate all the help you can give. Thanks!
Richard Adams wrote:
>
> >
> > At 11:13 PM 8/4/99 +0000, Richard Adams wrote [in part]:
> > > [someone else wrote:]
> > >>but while it is attempting to format the swap
> > >> space partition, I get the message
> > >>
> > >> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
> > >> In swapper task - not syncing
> > ...
> > >BTW: i for one have never heard of any computer bombing out while installing
> > >a new system, by bombing out i mean having a kernel panic happen.
> >
> > Richard - either you are luckier than me or you consistently use better
> > hardware. I've seen this (kernel panic during install) many times, for many
> > different reasons, including both bad hardware (floppy drive, target hard
> > disk, motherboard/CPU) and bad install media (floppy or, once, the CD
> > itself). But you are right in that the original poster didn't say enough to
> > get a helpful answer. A **very** rough guess, just form when it occurred, is
> > bad memory or a m'bd/CPU problem -- but I wouldn't put money on it.
>
> Well my hardware comes from a very reputable source namely a private
> computer store which has been established for more than 15 years, not from
> some supermarket chain who sells pc's at dump rock bottom prices.
> I find that to be the cheapest way in the long run.
>
> Cheap memory is a very likley cause indeed, the reason i said overclocked
> CPU was beacuse i saw K6/266 ( i think it was ) i have read somewhere that
> that is a lower speed machine clocked high, anyway lets wait for some more
> info.
>
> >
> > ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
> > Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
> > Palo Alto, CA 94303-3603 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >
>
> --
> Regards Richard.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
