Bug 41754 - Installer crashes saying: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffff9f
Summary: Installer crashes saying: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual a...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-05-22 01:14 UTC by Mickey Chandler
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:33 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-05-23 08:41:10 UTC
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Screen contents when install stops (1016 bytes, text/plain)
2001-05-22 01:16 UTC, Mickey Chandler
no flags Details

Description Mickey Chandler 2001-05-22 01:14:04 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)

Description of problem:
I'm trying to install RH 7.1 on a 486dx4/100MHz with 52M RAM, one 1151MB 
IDE HD and a 24x IDE CD-ROM.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start installer floppy
2. Start install process (i.e.: Hit <enter> when prompted)
3. Wait

Actual Results:  Crash occurs ending with:

Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

Expected Results:  Boot continues and gives the graphical install screen.

Comment 1 Mickey Chandler 2001-05-22 01:16:49 UTC
Created attachment 19230 [details]
Screen contents when install stops

Comment 2 Brent Fox 2001-05-22 12:51:33 UTC
Changing component to the kernel.

Comment 3 Arjan van de Ven 2001-05-22 13:04:27 UTC
Can you try adding "ide=nodma" at the syslinux prompt,eg

syslinux: linux ide=nodma

(don't type "syslinux:" yourself!)

Comment 4 Mickey Chandler 2001-05-22 13:53:12 UTC
Just tried that.  No change.

Results unchanged.

Comment 5 Arjan van de Ven 2001-05-22 14:07:42 UTC
Ok next try: mem=48M
Maybe the bios is lying slightly to linux about how much memory the machine has.

Comment 6 Mickey Chandler 2001-05-22 14:14:53 UTC
That shouldn't be the problem.  In addition to the memory on the SIMMs, there 
is an additional 4M cache on the motherboard.  I've already tried switching the 
jumpers on the motherboard to disable the memory.  The BIOS will fail to 
recognize the additional memory (and go to 48M total memory).  

Same error.

Comment 7 Arjan van de Ven 2001-05-22 14:36:59 UTC
Could you still try it? I set the value intentionally to be a bit smaller than
the actual memory..

Comment 8 Mickey Chandler 2001-05-23 03:30:48 UTC
Ok.  Just tried it and got to the install.  Now it's complaining about lack of 
disk space for the packages I selected.  That's a problem I can fix.

Thanks!

Comment 9 Arjan van de Ven 2001-05-23 08:41:06 UTC
That's a problem _I_ can't fix ;)


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