Need help with serious errors during install?
 

I just put together a new system and am trying to install Slack 10 which Ive done several times with no problems like these.


I get segmentation fault errors.
Ive gotten " unable to handle NULL pointer dereference at virtual address "
Ive gotten " unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 85d3lc8 "

I get these during install at varying times, no pattern to the errors.

The system has:

3.2 P4
asus p4p800 Motherboard
Seagate 80 gig hd
512 mb Kingston hyper x
msi DVD/RW
msi CDROM

I have formatted and have partitions set.
I have set the bios to failsafes

If anyone has any info that could help I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

typically seg faults are due to software issues relating to a program trying to access memory not allocated for it. since it is during an install and sporadic in intervals, i would try an app like memtest86 which you can run from a knoppix boot disc at the boot prompt. this will let you know if it might be a memory failure. thats about all i can think might be the issue...

I took these 2 sticks out of another system and they worked fine in that system. Thats a good idea though, I am going to try memtest86. Thanks for the reply.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/sh...cat=998&page=1


Check out the posts here regarding a bios upgrade. This could be your problem.

HTH

I figured it out, It was that my Dimms needed to have the voltage upped a little, but I do need to do the bios update also. thanks.