Hello Linux'ers! I'm searching in vain for help with a niggling problem installing Linux, and since it seems deja.com doesn't carry the linux newsgroups, the only other place I can reach with my Linux-server-less internet access is mailing lists. So if I'm posting in the wrong place, please be tolerant and perhaps even pass on info of a better place to post! Please CC all reply's straight to me, since this crappy web based email generally placates being subscribed to an email list with large volumes of email. OK, I'm attempting to install Linux Slackware 4.0 (kernel 2.2.6) onto a system with a newly purchased motherboard and a similarly new 13GB Quantum Fireball HDD. Everything is dandy until I try to format the partitions using Slackware's setup program. After a few seconds, I get a "segmentation fault" error proceeded by a large group of numbers. Occasionally I'll get a "Kernel Panic - free list corrupt" and if I try to format the native partitions w/out formating swap first, I'll get the same followed by "Aiee, kernel trying to kill idle process". The systems hangs each time, and sometimes just crashes with a screen full of high ascii characters. This points to some h/ware config, but I've tried different HDD's, and they all appear alright in the bios settings and POST. Other OS's install fine, which leads me to believe that the m/board-> ide controller-> HDD are all working reasonably well. I've tried whacking the same HDD into another computer (completely different setup h/ware wise), and it installs fine - but I've replaced everything in the "dodgy" computer with the exception of the power supply, which I've checked as OK with a multimeter. I'm running the 13Gig hdd as hda with an ATAPI CD on hdb. It's running "NORMAL" (as opposed to LBA and LARGE), and I've tried forcing it into various PIO modes. As someone who's been using Linux since 1995, this is the first time I've seriously been stumped! Any advice would be appreciated, and might stop me from ripping even more hair out. Thanks! Matt - - Matt Steadman Technical / Engineering, SRA-FM, MMM-FM, RRR-FM, RMITV, MCTC-31 Founder, "Now You See It" Fan Club inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Get your free email from AltaVista at http://altavista.iname.com
