Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 16 Sep 2001 03:10:40 -0700 | From | Brian Bennett <> |
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Ok, I've been trying to get some version of 2.4.x to boot on my laptop for some time now with no luck. I figure it's either my UBD, a bug, or my hardware just sucks, I'd like to figure out which.
Anyway, my specs: Sony VAIO PCG-FX215 CPU AMD Duron 800 MB is Via82c686 128M ram distro is Debian sid, but I've tried others that come with 2.4 kernel such as Mandrake. I think that's all the relevant stuff(?) but I can get the details on any other hardware that might be relavent.
My errors: I don't have any specifics because with different configs I get different errors and I don't know how to get dumps of the errors, but the usual ones are along the lines of: unable to handle kernel paging request kernel panick: tried to kill init kernel panick: tried to kill the idle task
What I've tried: setting cpu choice to amd/duron, pentium, 386, 686 enable/disable apm, acpi, pcmcia, usb, ieee1394 (and anything else that looked good at the time, but I don't remember all of them). passing mem=128M to the kernel (grasping at straws here)
Something else that may be helpful, I had to disable PCMCIA support to get the Install CD to boot, and I've never gotten it or USB to work (I'm not very concerned about those though, I don't have any PCMCIA cards or USB devices I want to use).
2.2.x kernels boot fine (without pcmcia or usb) and I've been using 2.2.19 for the past few months, but I have a DVD drive and I want to watch movies.
I read something rom ac a while back about AMD and VIA saying that it's just broken, it's VIA's fault and to not expect a fix any time soon. How can I verify that is/isn't me?
Anyway, I guess the first step is how can I go about gathering more info so we can find out exactly what it is that's causing the problem?
TIA for any help.
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