Robert Wieteska wrote: > I have an AMD Athlom 1000Mhz, 256 Mb RAM, GeForceII, RAID contrilers. > During the instalation i have a comunicate > > Segmentation fault: Seems like memory is missing as an install > crashes. What should I do. > > Wietek > That is almost certainly a disk error. I assume you are not attempting to use the so-called RAID controllers in RAID mode since that is a windows-specific software RAID which requires special linux drivers (IF they are available).
You might try this: F1 at splash screen linux ide0=noautotune ide1=noautotune ide2=noautotune ide3=noautotune Also try removing and reseating disk cables (very frequently a problem) and checking disk brands (I see this ten times as frequently with WD disks). The cables should be 80-pin and high-quality without stress on the point-to-point connection. SOme of the new rounded IDE cables being sold for about $6 each are very good replacements. If you replace the disk cables with 40-pin which will force UDMA2/ATA33 or lower on the interface and the install goes OK there is no doubt at all that your hard disk drives are marginal. If you need to check system memory (the less probable flaw), then use /dosutils/rawwritewin.exe to copy the image /images/memtest-x86.bin to a floppy and boot from the floppy. If you are using 8.2, you can probably boot from the CD and hit F1 at the splash screen and type rescue then select the memory test from the menu that comes up. It is not uncommon for Windows to work (sort of) with faulty memory and linux to barf at it. After acclimation to a crashy environment, the user does not notice a slight increase in the frequency of crashes, and the two use memory much differently. Windows may encourage rebooting when system resources run low, while linux endeavors to keep resources in use all the time and simply reassign the resources from one task to another as needed. Civileme
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