Problems running Red Hat Linux 6.1 and 6.2

[Mike Bilow]

My best guesses:

1. You have a corrupt swap space.  Try booting from the floppy and seeing
if you can do mkswap onto whatever your swap space is, usually a partition
in the case of a standard Red Hat installation.

2. Your kernel is trying to operate the hard drive in some mode it does
not correctly support.  As a test (you really don't want to run this way),
you can try starting the interface in slow mode.  For example, to slow
/dev/hda, you would use "hda=slow" at the Linux boot prompt.  You can also
try changing things in your CMOS setup, disabling DMA mode and using PIO
mode instead, and then dropping to a low PIO mode (such as 0).  If these
kinds of changes fix your problems, you have some sort of hardware issue,
possibly a bad IDE cable.

-- Mike


On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Ming Chow wrote:

> Hello All:
> 
> I am computer science student at Tufts University and I have been running 
> Red Hat Linux 6.0 on a HP Pavilion machine -dual boot with Windows 98 using 
> LILO.  Recently, I obtained a copy of Red Hat Linux 6.1 and 6.2.  I tried 
> upgrading my RH 6.0 system to 6.1.  After finish upgrading my system, I 
> tried booting up Linux and in the boot process, I get the following 
> messages:
> 
> "Unable to handle kernal paging request at virtual address ffffd000
> 
> current->tss.cr3=00101000, %cr3=00101000
> *pde=00284067
> *pte=00000000
> Oops: 0002
> CPU: 0
> 
> <blah...blah...blah>
> 
> Process swapper........<blah...blah...blah>
> Stack 80000000.......<blah...blah...blah>...07c33f50
> 
> Call trace........<blah...blah...blah>
> Code........<blah...blah...blah>
> Kernal panic: Attenpted to kill idle task
> In swapper task -not syncing"
> 
> I tried reinstalling a new Red Hat Linux 6.1 system, installing a Red Hat 
> 6.2 system and I still got the same problem when trying to boot up Linux.  I 
> reinstalled Red Hat Linux 6.0 and it worked fine for some reason.  How come 
> I can't use Red Hat 6.1 - 6.2?  Is there something wrong with my hard drive 
> or memory?  Any information would be grealt appreciated.  Thanks!
> 
> With Regards,
> Ming
> 
> 
> 
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