Hello -
Although I too am not exactly a
, it seems that each machine has its unique characteristics when installing various Linux distros. Perhaps Linux folks should learn a little about standard installs from M$. I have installed and configured Linux on various systems to various levels of success, and I feel your pain.
Anyway, I too am encountering similar BAD EIP errors when installing Linux. So far, I have attempted to install three different distros:
Mandrake Linux 9.2
Red Hat 9.2
Slackware 9.1
And have gotten no further than just past their respective welcome screens where is says "simply press enter to start the installation, or press one of the F keys for further options (paraphrased)".
My system is as follows:
Motherboard: MSI (Microstar International) MS-5130 Socket 7 with
-Pentium 1 MMX @ 200 mHz
-128 Megs RAM (tested with memtest)
I have a 6.4 Gig IBM Drive and 2.1 Quantum Fireball Drive as Primary and Secondary on the First
IDE, then a Matshita 585 CD/DVD ROM as Master on the second IDE; each have been tested without
issue.
I originally had a Creative 64 AWE card (ISA), a Kouwell USB 1.1 card (PCI) and an Adaptec 2940-AU SCSI card on it, but removed them in order to reduce the chance of error that may be caused by
these cards. So the only cards left in the system were a D-Link 530-PT ISA Network card and the ATI All-In-Wonder 8 Meg card.
The BIOS on this system is the most recent for this computer (AWARD, 4.51, Oct. 97) and was configured to boot from CD-ROM during several installation attempts (failed), and also configured boot from floppy during others (also failed) all with the same errors.
Below is a complete listing of the error message produced from the Mandrake 9.2 install attempts.
Both Slackware and Red Hat produced similar results (with slightly different hex values, but the result was still BAD EIP value).
---Begin Screenshot---
Linux 2.4.22-10mdkBOOT
[Mandrake Linux Logo]
SIS5513: IDE Controller at PCI Slot 00:01.1
SIS5513: chipset revision 9
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe IRQs later
SIS5513: SIS5596 ATA 16 Controller
ide0:BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS SETTINGS: hda: pio, hdb
io
SIS5513: simplex device: DMA disabled
ide1: SIS5513 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
hda: IBM-DTTA-350640 ATA Disk Drive
hdb: Quantum Fireball SE 2.1A, ATA Disk Drive
hdc: Matshita CR-585, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM Drive
Unable to handle kernel NULL Pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
printint eip:
00000000
Oops: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<00000000>] not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010286
eax:00000006 ebx:c013c704 ecx:80000944 edx:00000003
esi:c013c704 edi:c013c654 ebp:0000000f esp:c7cbff28
Stack: c01ee618 c013c704 00b400f0 00000001 0b13c704 00000003 c013c704 00000000
0000000f c01ecc8d c013c704 0000000b 0313c654 c013c704 c013c654 c01fbddf
c013c704 000000ff 00000246 00000001 c013c654 c0248000 0004e000 c01fc6bb
call trace: [<c01ee618>] [<c01ecc8d>] [<c01fbddf>] [<c01fcbbb>] [<c0164235>] [<c0105f8f>] [<c
016422c>]
code: BAD EIP value
<0> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
---end screen shot---
This system used to house Windows 98, but got bored of it. It runs Windows 98 just fine. So Linux
users - convince me- If Linux is so good, why will it not install on this system, when every
Windows installation I have installed from x386 machines upwards has had little (if any)
difficulty. Looking for advice on this install.
regards
djeddiej
