Description of Problem: This has already been posted to a RH support forum: http://www.redhat.com/WebX?224@99.sk9CaFyjSfe^0@e1bd@.ee79440 Linux Net4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon... invalid operand: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c01122d1>] EFLAGS: 00010206 eax: c0101cc8 ebx: cc800000 ecx: 8da32000 edx: c0101000 esi: c1232000 edi: 0bff0000 ebp: 00000000 esp: c1337f54 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process swapper (pid: 1, stackpage=c1337000) Stack: 0bff1000 00001000 0bff0000 c00fc390 8da32000 c0101cc8 00000010 cc800000 c1232000 0bff0000 00000000 c0112523 cc800000 3f7f0000 c1232000 00000000 cd22184c c00fc390 00000014 cc800000 c123184d c023a700 0bff0000 c123184d Call Trace: [<cc800000>] [<c0112523>] [<cc800000>] [<cd22184c>] [<cc800000>] [<c0105000>] [<c0105201>] [<c0105000>] [<c0105642>] [<c01051f8>] Code: 0f 0b 8b 5c 24 14 85 db e9 31 01 00 00 89 f6 b8 f4 ff ff ff <0> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot: text 2. 3. Actual Results: As above Expected Results: Additional Information: My hardware is a sis730s based motherboard with a 1G Duron processor.
I tried: boot: linux noathlon with no change.
Is this one of those boards with built-in video but without videoram ? I've seen one board where the bios forgot to mark the main memory it used for videoram as "reserved" so that both linux and the videocard use it. Could you try passing mem=xxxM where xxx is 33 Mb less than the actual memory you have (or whatever you set up for "shared" video memory in the bios)
arjanv you guessed it right. that solved it. booting with a reduced mem. I don't know if high praise is allowed in bug reports, but well I've done a dozen RHinstalls over about 6 yrs, never had a problem installing, and never made a bug report. 5 minutes after my first it was solved. thanks
BIOS problem so one we can't fix ourselves