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Old 01-21-2005, 11:34 PM   #1
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HELP! my linux install appears corrupted...


Does anyone recognize this screen, or what might be going on? I'm scared :-/

Sorry the picture is so dark :-/
 
Old 01-21-2005, 11:38 PM   #2
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immediately following that post, i rebooted and tried to boot into linux. It goes through a bunch of stuff, says "Mounting Root..." and then "Booting..." and then like INIT 2.84, then it restarts the computer... ahhh!!!!
 
Old 01-22-2005, 12:48 AM   #3
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pass: acpi=off to kernel when booting.

may also try:
i8042.nomux or
acpi=off apm=off

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Old 01-22-2005, 12:26 PM   #4
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pass: acpi=off to kernel when booting.

may also try:
i8042.nomux or
acpi=off apm=off
how do i do that?
 
Old 01-22-2005, 02:53 PM   #5
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What's your bootloader? In GRUB you press 'e' to edit the kernel command line, and then you can add the stuff tormented_one suggested. In LILO you can press tab to get to a command prompt and type in the kernel command line plus options.
 
Old 01-22-2005, 03:00 PM   #6
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Ok well I tried adding passing those commands, and the results were very inconsistent, but I _think_ that the acpi=off command got rid of the "double fault, tss at ADDRESS" error, however, the gdt error is still there. I tried each of those commands, and different combinations of the three but nothing that I tried would let me boot into linux.

More ideas?
 
  


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