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I'm looking for help to install linux into a PC that doesn't want to be linuxized! I have unsuccessfully tryed different release of linux (an old Slackware, a new RedHat 5.0 and finally debian 1.3). The strangest thing is that twice I could get linux installed (once w/RedHat 4.1 and now with debian), in fact now on my 2th hard disk I have linux fully installed but I can't use it! When I try to run the rescue disk it sometimes halts or reset or print out the hell on screen in a sort of exception catching, or displays the request to choice between monochrome or colour monitor and then locks. Some hours ago the rescue procedure worked (although it said: floppy0 no floppy controller found during kernel initialitation) and so I used the item "shell" to go out to prompt and I saw that I could list my directories in the root (/dev/hdc1) and so on. I listed /proc that showed me all my devices (except my fdd controller). Resetting, system has the usual troubles... My system is a: CPU: AMD K6-200 MainBoard: ExpertBoard 8J61 (INTEL 430VX) - AWARD BIOS hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL 3.2Mb hdb: CD-ROM IDE 24x hdc: Conner 420Mb LAN: TRUST OFFICE PCI CARD (NE2000 Compatible?) VGA: 3d-BLASTER CREATIVE LABS SCANNER: MUSTEG CG-8000T BACKUP: IOMEGA tape 200 The system seems to locks during partition check, I wrote down some message of devices probing: ########################################################################### .... Unknown PCI device 1013:d4 <------ my VGA (no problem I guess) .... ide i82371 PIIX(triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57 ide 0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007 ide 1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL ST3.2A,3074MB w/81Kb Cache, LBA,CHS=782/128/63,DMA hdb: TAE IL CDROM-7240J,ATAPI CDROM drive hdc: Conner Peripherals 420MB - CFS 420A, 406MB w/64Kb Cache,CHS=826/16/63 ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq15 floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Started kswapsdv 1.4.2.2 FDC0 is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4,MAX_REAL=8 <--------------------------------- sometimes halts or reset here FAILED initialitation of WD-7000 scsi card! PPA: Unable to initialize controller at 0x378, error 2 scsi: 0 hosts scsi: detected total. Partition check: hda: <1> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e9282726 Current->tss.cr3=00101000,%cr3=0010100 *pda = 00000 ..... Aiee killing interrupt handler kfree of non-kmalloced memory kfree of non-kmalloced memory kfree of non-kmalloced memory idle task may not sleep idle task may not sleep idle task may not sleep idle task may not sleep idle task may not sleep <----------------------------------- now the system is halted Sometimes I can see the display type choice screen then the system reset or halts. On desperation I opened the PC and I removed all cards and put an old VGA 256Kb, but the problem resists. So I guess it may be a mother board problem. I started to change BIOS setup to disable PCI controllers, shadow configuration, and so on.... an odyssey (I have an old 486DX4-100 that runs linux since 1996 and I updated recently ;-( S.O.S. Thanks in advance for any tips.... Luciano Andrea do I have to change the main board I bought 1 month ago? | ||||||||||||
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