On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 18:37:50 +0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > > > any idea what a message like this means, this is just when the > > kernel is loaded from floppy, uncompresses and the below message > > comes repeated in screenfull. > > > > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual > > address 00000000 > > > > the machine is a 486 with 40MB ram, 4.3GB HDD. (dos/windows too > > are unable to start up apart from the initial messages.) > > just curious typically which part of hardware could have gone > > wrong? > > 4.3GB?? afaik these machines cant detect a harddisk > 2gb.
this one had a pci bus & LBA thing so could take the 4.3GB. > Check the bios setup. Insert maximum wait states to slow down ram > access. Replace the ram if you can find some of those ancient > pieces. Or try a floppy distro. since these use very little ram it > might just work. i will try that. well just planning to take a new machine, but dont want to junk this out completely, but seeing if i can still get it working, the old beast can still do a lot!! thanks, Karunakar -- ************************************* * Work: http://www.indlinux.org * * Blog: http://cartoonsoft.com/blog * ************************************* -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
