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RH7 laptop problem
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| Greetings Redhat gurus
I am having a problem making Redhat 7 work on my Toshiba Satellite Pro
480CDT. It boots fine from cd and the setup and instalation run smoothly
but crashes while booting from the harddrive. The error message is:
Code:89 02 85 c0 74 03 89 50 04 b8 01 00 00 00 eb 03 90 31 c0 c7
Aiee, killing interupt handler
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
In interrupt handler - not syncing
At this point it completely locks up and a hard boot is needed to restart
the machine.
I have googled around for a solution but have found no other description of
this problem. Any advice would be very appreciated. I'm eager to use this
machine with linux as its sole operating system.
Thanks in advance
vYv
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| Funny... As often seems to happen, no sooner had I posted this message than
I found a solution.
For those interested:
It seems that the PCMCIA was the problem. I found a reference to change the
BIOS setting from AUTO to Cardbus/16-bit. Tried it... didn't work.
However changing it to PCIC Compatible does.
Any replies (stories, info, whatever) still welcome. I'm relatively new to
Linux and not too savvy.
Cheers
vYv
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| Erkan Yanar 2004-12-30, 8:47 pm |
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Am Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:12:48 -0500,schrieb vYv :
> Funny... As often seems to happen, no sooner had I posted this message than
> I found a solution.
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> For those interested:
> It seems that the PCMCIA was the problem. I found a reference to change the
> BIOS setting from AUTO to Cardbus/16-bit. Tried it... didn't work.
> However changing it to PCIC Compatible does.
>
> Any replies (stories, info, whatever) still welcome. I'm relatively new to
> Linux and not too savvy.
>
Please excuse my curiosity, but why do you want to install RH7. Its
pretty old and even RH9 is not supportet anymore.
Why not taking Fedora or having a look @ whiteboxlinux.org (if you wanna
be more than a tester ;-)
tschazu
erkan
--
über den grenzen muß die freiheit wohl wolkenlos sein
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"Erkan Yanar" <erkan.yanar@t-online.de> wrote in message
news:6f42rc.0j.ln@510002093148-0001.dialin.t-online.de...
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> Please excuse my curiosity, but why do you want to install RH7. Its
> pretty old and even RH9 is not supportet anymore.
> Why not taking Fedora or having a look @ whiteboxlinux.org (if you wanna
> be more than a tester ;-)
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This version just happens to be the distro I have access to on cd and my
internet conection is too slow to download large iso images. Found the cds
at my little local library.
I will take a look at more current stuff online however and maybe shell out
the money for something if my testing ;-) shows me its something I like
(which it seems to be so far).
A question though... My laptop is 233Mhz 32Mb. RH7 runs at a good speed in
both console and X. Would a newer distro be too slow?
Regards
vYv
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| Erkan Yanar 2005-01-01, 5:51 pm |
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Am Sat, 1 Jan 2005 10:35:17 -0500,schrieb vYv :
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> A question though... My laptop is 233Mhz 32Mb. RH7 runs at a good speed in
> both console and X. Would a newer distro be too slow?
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The slow things on new distros are the desctopenviroments. The main
argument against RH7 is, that you dont get any securityupdates.
If you are satisfied with your "old" distribution right now you will be
satisfied with an newer either. Even if ive got to confess, that i was
not that happy with my laptop (133mhz/32mb) under X.
Always do the textinstall to go around that bloating GUI-installers.
You can get an "actual" linuxdristribution by a magazin also.
tschazu
erkan
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über den grenzen muß die freiheit wohl wolkenlos sein
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