Re: URGENT AND MAJOR RH 7.2 Problems - PLEASE HELP

On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 10:25:50AM +1000, Tony Nugent wrote:

Tony's information (see below) is all fine, nothing wrong with it at
all, but...

memtest86 comes with a pre-compiled image so you don't NEED to make it.

The makefile has a target named "install-bin", so all  you really
NEED to do is unpack the archive, put a floppy in fd0 and (as root)
type "make install-bin" and it'll take care of the rest of it
for you.

Fred
> On Sun Apr 27 2003 at 11:47, "[email protected]" wrote:
> 
> > I have a big 'ol problem with the RH 7.2 install. I'm installing in text
> > mode, as X doesn't work with this gfx card. Here goes:
> ...
> > <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
> > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
> > 00000000
> ...
> > Just for kicks, I tried installing RH 8, and here's what I got:
> ...
> > Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 09:02
> > 
> > And the install stops. Same error every time.
> > 
> > Any ideas? Please email me or call me.
> 
> I've had exactly the same sorts of errors with bad ram.
> 
> You need memtest86, download it from http://www.memtest86.com/
> 
> memtest86 is a small stand-alone memory diagnostic utility which you
> actually boot the computer into in order to run it.
> 
> It works very well, recommended.
> 
> Getting it working is as simple as extracting the tarball, changing
> to the source directory and running "make".  This will produce a
> file call memtest.bin which is the binary bootsector runtime file.
> 
> To create a boot image and bootdisk from this binary is fairly easy:
>          
>   $ dd if=/dev/zero   of=/dev/ram count=2880
>   $ dd if=memtest.bin of=/dev/ram bs=8192
>   $ dd if=/dev/ram    of=memtest86.img count=2880
>   $ cp memtest86.img  /dev/fd0
>             
> You can also create iso images with mkisofs specifing memtest86.img
> as the cdrom's boot image (with the -b parameter).  I often do this
> to data cdroms to make them a little more useful.
> 
> (And after saying all that, I've just noticed the availability of
> pre-compiled downloadable boot images at the the memtest86 web
> site :)
> 
> > Evan Kinney
> 
> Cheers
> Tony
> 
> 
> 
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