I have now tried installing linux about 2 dozen times. each time it fails during the install. i have resorted to repartitioning the primary drive, reformatting so only windows is installed. the 6.5G was wiped clean. i have downloaded the most recent install update (from april 19), with no success. just doing GNOME workstation install. i get 3 screens full of output. the last screen gives me: install exited abnormally -- recieved signal 11 sending termination signals...done sending kill signals...md: recovery thread got woken up ... md: recovery thread finished mdrecoveryd(6) flushing signals. done disabling swap../tmp/swap/hdb6 unmounting filesystems... /mnt/sysimage/boot /mnt/sysimage/proc /mnt/sysimage/ umount failed (16) /mnt/source /dev/pts /proc ejecting cdrom you may safely rebootyour system my system: PII 400; 256M ram; 20G primary EIDE (for windows98); 6.5G slave EIDE (for linux); cirrix 5446 vcard
ok, here's the other screens of dump: Process kswapd (pid: 5, process nr: 5, stackpage=cff13000) Stack: c9572db0 c03c8840 9572d5c cfff1740 c0125a19 cfff1740 c95kmem_free: Bad obj addr (objp=c97d2590, name=buffer_head)0 c03c8840 000003ff 00000030 00000000 Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000 current ->tss.cr3 = 0ffe0000, %cr = 0ffe0000b842>] [<c01205aa>] [<c01cff8e>] [<c* pde = 0000000006000>] Oops: 000Z01065d7>] CPU: 005 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 eb 0f 56 53 68 1e fd 1c c0 e8 EIP: 0010:[<c011f955>] EFLAGS: 00010Z86 eax: 0000003d ebx: c97d2590 ecx: 0000001e edx: 0000001d esi: cfff1740 edi: 00000286 edp: 00000000 esp: cf84fd38 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process anaconda (pid: 9, process nr: 9, stackpage=cf84f000) Stack: c97d2590 c03ce830 c97d25dc cf84e000 c0125a19 cfff1740 c97d2590 c97d2590 c97d2590 c012675b c97d2590 c97d2590 c03ce830 000003ff 00000003 00000345 c011b842 c03ce830 00000008 00000006 c01205aa 00000006 00000003 00000001 Call Trace: [<c0125a19>] [<c012675b>] [<c011b842>] [<c01205aa>] [<c01206c8>] [< c0120ea8>] [<c012665d>] [<c01254d9>] [<c0125686>] [<c013a567>] [<c013ab49>] [<c013ad84>] [<c0139343>] [< c012d0aa>] [<c012d415>] [<c012d9aa>] [<c0123e9a>] [<c0138e14>] [<c0107e28>] [<c0100020b>] Code: c7 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 eb 0f 56 53 68 1e fd 1c c0 e8 Install exited abnormally -- recieved signal 11 sending termination signals ... done sending kill signals...md: recovery thread go woken up... md: recovery thread finished ... mdrecoveryd(6) flushing signals. *****the rest is as in previous message*****
What do you see on virtual consolve 3 (just the last 4 lines of output)?
The last 4 lines of output are: /dev/pts /proc ejecting cdrom you may safely reboot your system Also, these messages only are produced during the text installation. using the GUI installation, it just locks up, presumably it produces the same messages.
I'm sorry, I guess I needed you to tell me more of what is on VC3 - could you report the next 5 lines above the lines you quoted above.
Please reopen if you continue to have problems.