[H-GEN] Long boring whining post

[Rob Kearey]

Hmm. I'm trying to install RedHat 4.2 on ningaui, without
success. When booting from the installation diskettes (or the
cdrom image for that matter) I get the following message :

Image starts, I press enter, initrd loads, vmlinuz loads, then ...

... ( scrolls past too quickly)

<... Here begins the transcription of the crash message ...>

bios32 service(1229148196): not present
Probing PCI hardware
invalid operand: 0000
CPU:    0
EIF:    0010[<00000007>]
EFLAGS: 00010096

eax: 0000b108  ebx: 00000000  ecx: 00000000  edx: 00000000
esi: 001c4d18  edi: 00000012  ebp: 00201804  esp: 001c75e0
ds:  0018  es:  0018  fs:  0018  gs:  0018  ss:  0018
Proceess Swapper (pid:0, process nr:0, stackpage=001c56a4)
Stack 0010df03 00000010 02000000 00098800 00201820 000000000 00000046 
0010e7ee
      00000000 00000000 0000000e 001c7653 02000000 001a334 00000000 00000000
      0000000e 001c7653 02000000 00098800 0201820 001c7668 00000016 00000000
Call Trace: [<0010df03>] [<0010e7ee>] [<001a1334>] [<001a1682>] [<001090f8>] 
[<00116f58>]
Code: f0 c3 e2 00 f0 bd e3 ff ff ff ff 00 f0 54 ff 00 f0 bd e3 00

kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 001c76ec, next=00000000, order=0
kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 001c76dc, next=00000000, order=0
kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 001c7bf0, next=00000000, order=0

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

<... end transcription ...>

The system is now completely hung, requiring a hard reset
(or power cycle, on this aptiva). 

Is this a Hideous Kernel Bug (As I suspect) or some funky 
memory (As the RedHat support people suggest)? RedHat 4.1
installs OK, so I suppose I could just do that and upgrade, 
but I'm concerned about possible problems with unusual
aptiva hardware problems that I'd rather sort out now than
later. And no, the Aptiva can't mysteriously have an "accident".







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Rob Kearey			Sodomy non Sapiens
r.kearey at mailbox.uq.edu.au	I don't speak for my employer

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