problem w/ debian install

PTBmilo · 05-02-2003, 11:00 PM

I'm trying to install debian woody on a (somewhat) old laptop... toshiba 480cdt

I have been through the install a couple of times, but every freak'n time, when I reboot the machine, the system goes haywire on startup.

I get all kinds of garbage scrolling through the screen, and then this:

Code:

code: 89 01 8b 0a 85 c9 74 08 8b 42 04 89 41 04 eb 06 8b 42 04 89
Aiee, killing interrupt handler
kernel panic: Attempted to kill idle task!
In interrupt handler - not syncing

Anyone know what's going wrong here?

I don't know why they say debian is soo stable... I've done about 5 installs, and something DIFFERENT goes wrong every time. (and once I fix that, I still get the above crash )

UPDATE:

I booted into single user, then ran all the /etc/rc2.d/ scripts by hand. It fails on the pcmcia script

What is strange is that the install and first reboot can use the card just fine.

Anybody know what's up with this?

kaml · 06-27-2003, 08:46 AM

Hello!
I have exactly the same problem...
Installed debian now... errm, 4 times, and every time this same error appeares. I've got a network card (3com) in pcmcia slot. In fact I installed debian from internet with that network card, so it cannot be broken.

It's a little bit strage because I can't even boot with rescue or bootdisk(made in the install), it always makes this kernel panic

So anyone figured out any solutions for this problem?

Cage47 · 06-27-2003, 03:54 PM

Toshibas have propriatory pci bridges that Linux has a hard time recognizing. It is not the distro. It is the hardware. Toshibas are great machines (I have a 700ct) but they are hard to get Linux loaded on without some work. Check out the Linux on Laptops website for more info. Here:

http://www.linux-laptop.net/

kaml · 06-28-2003, 07:52 AM

Problem solved!

I turned pcmcia mode from bios from auto-select to something intel or so and it started working