Install hangup....

[Ioannis Vranos]

Joseph wrote:
> Joseph wrote:
> <snip>
>>> However, my memory came up with a lot of errors....   I ran it twice and it's now saying there's 184 errors....   AND it says, "Unexpected Interrupt - Halting" at the top of the red error field.
>>>
>>> So I would suspect that the drive, which is read ok in my other computer, is not the problem...  but rather the memory.
>>>
>>> Guess I must go find another stick of RAM....
>>>
>>> Are my suspicions probable?
> David Vincent wrote:
>> Sounds like you're on the right track now.  BTW I hope you didn't run any disk checks before you ran this RAM test.  If you do indeed have a faulty slice, it can introduce *ahem* issues into the filesystem.
>>
>> Anyways, let us know how you make out after you get some new RAM.
> 
> 
> Did it.  Just came home with two new sticks of Kingstons 512 ram.  Since my computer had only one 
> stick of 512 in it, I put only one back in for now.
> 
> However......      <grimace>      you should see the issies.  When I boot to the Live CD, And I hit 
> Install (first on the menu), it gets started and then this (exactly as seen on screen):
> 
> 	[   40.699000]  [<c03e3581>]  kernal_init+0131/0x310
> 	[   40.699000]  [<c010320a>]  __switch_to+0xaa/0x1d0
> 	[   40.699159]  [<c01040f6>]  ret_from_fork+0x6/0x20
> 	[   40.699237]  [<c03e3450>]  kernal_init+0x0/0x310
> 	[   40.699316]  [<c03e3450>]  kernal_init+0x0/0x310
> 	[   40.699394]  [<c0105487>]  kernal_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
> 	[   40.699474]  ========================
> 	[   40.699518]  Code: 89 c6 89 d0 8b 54 24 14 89 5c 24 04 89 cb 0f b7 4c 24 10 89
>           14 24 89 da e8 4c ff ff ff 89 c3 89 c2 89 f0 e8 21 fb ff ff 83 fb 01 <19> 80 83
>           e0 f4 8b 5c 24 04 8b 74 24 08 83 c4 0c c3 8d b6 00 00
> 	[   40.701836]  EIP:  [<c01c3fc2>]  sys_make_dirent+0x32/0x50 SS:ESP 0068:ddce7e3
> 	c
> 	[   40.7016631]  Kernal panic - not syncing:  Attempted to kill init!
> 
> 
> Sounds like this thing's upset about something (maybe top posting?)  <GRIN>
> 
> Joseph


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