by We have a 486DX2-S 50 Mhz, 8 MbRam, 1GB SCSI Hd with Controller
Adaptec AHA-1522 with Adaptec BIOS 1520 v.1.4 enabled. The controller
is set to default configuration: IRQ 11, address 0xDC000-0xDFFFF,
port 0x340, SCSI-ID: 7.
When we attempt to do a setup of the Linux distribution, after a while,
we get this message and the machine halts (won't even ctrlaltdel reset).
general protection: 0000
EIP: 0010:0010e51a
eax: 0052c32c ebx: 00080000 ecx: 00000001 edx: 6804c483
esi: 0052c32c edi: 00000002 ebp: 0001de28c esp: 001de284
ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b sc: 0018
process swapper (pid: 0, process nr. 0, stackpage:001dd3de)
Stack: 0052c30c 003a83bd 003a8371 001b91b6 0052e32c
Code: 8b 02 83 f8 02 74 07 86 02 83 f8 01 75 20 e7 02 00 00 00 00
Aiee, killing interupt handler
Kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 001de3d4, next: 00000000, order = 0
Task[0] (swapper) killed: unable to recover
Kernel panic: trying to free up swapper memory space
In swapper task - not syncing
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We tried all the possible boot/root disks, from version 0.99
to version 1.1.59 (loaded). We have installed many other Linuxes
and never had this problem before. We have tried first with a swap
partition set and running, then with swapoff, then with no partition
at all and it won't make much of a difference. We thought it might
have something to do with the hardware but the machine runs dos 6.2
and windows 3.1 in protected mode flawlessly even for large
executables. Do you have any idea?
May UMSDOS be a possibility to try?
Nicola Bernardini
Michele Manfrin
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Michele Manfrin