Bug 6196

Summary: General protection failure 0000 (fatal) during instalation boot on Pent-Pro
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: bart_schrijver
Component: kernelAssignee: Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm>
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Description bart_schrijver 1999-10-21 19:08:11 UTC 
System used HP XU 6/200 with SCSI Adeptec  AHA-2x4x
CPU: Pent-Pro 200 Mhz single processor
128 Mb memory
Lan card HP2585B 100VG
2 serial, 1 parallel
ATAPI CD-rom on IDE Second primary
PS/2 mouse and keyboard
2 drives 2Gb Seagate 540 Mb Mitsubushi SCSI
1 floppy

Redhat 6.0 boot diskette
boots to Ramdisk created then fails
Note: 0 scsi hosts detected.
Note: All other hardware seems to probed correctly.
This is a copy from the printout on the screen:
protection fault: 0000
EIP: 0010:[<c0124204>]
EFLAGS: 00010286
eax: ffffffff ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000100 edx: ffffffff
esi: 00000400 edi: c0099408 ebp: 00000100 esp: c009d120

ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process swapper (pid:1, processnr: 1, stackpage: c009d000)
stack c012423f  00000100  00000000  00000400 c01245bf
00000100 00000000  00000400  00000001 00000000 c0099408
00000400  00000005 cd1270c7  00000100
00000000  00000400 ffffffff  00008000  c0099408  00007fff
00000000  00000000 00000068

Call trace:
c012423f  c01245bf  c01270c7  c017008d  c0170193  c016db55
c010f75c  c0116b39  c0108b2a  c0107b24  c0170e54  c017181d
c017191e  c017198d  c0171d32  c0106000  c010615f  c01065d7

Code:
8b 00 39 5a 04 75 15 39 72 08 75 10 66 39 4a 0c 75 0a 89 d0
Comment 1 Cristian Gafton 2000-01-04 22:26:59 UTC 
Assigned to dledford
Comment 2 Alan Cox 2000-08-22 14:33:10 UTC 
Lots of XU/200's seem happy (there is an APIC issue). Im closing this as old
info that
doesnt really give us anything now