I installed 7.2 on three PPros before leaving Alaska. Two went fine and the
other showed the same error. It worked fine after I replaced one stick of
memory--it had 4 16Mb and I took one known good and kept swapping til it
worked.
I would guess offhand that you have a problem with memory, either not enough
or some just marginal. Remember that windows uses memory much differently
from linux--usually leaving the upper middle vacant, and linux tries to
employ most of your memory all the time.
If your HDD happens to be WD, then you may have an undetected write error
during install, because WD disks don't do CRC. This is less likely than the
direct memory problem with one exception--cables old or subject to stress
might have caused a write error during install which would be undetected on a
WD drive..
Civileme
On Sunday 14 January 2001 07:56, you wrote:
> Hi All, I've been in the computer game a long time but new to linux... I
> just got an old compaq 6000 PC, 200mhz Pentium Pro, with a 6gig IDE Maxtor
> HDD, IDE cdrom, Matrox MGA video card. Blank HDD to install linux on.
>
> I installed mandrake a few days ago fine, no problems the instalation went
> great. The from console mode i did a reboot command. It reset and came up
> with the GRUB boot screen started linux automatically then almost right
> away says uncompressing kernel and the machine reboots.
>
> I tried failsafe mode did the same thing. So thought easy fix, format the
> drive and reload linux back on. Did that, but on the first bootup after
> installation, the same problem occured. I've tried everything from
> different video cards to resetting the bios etc.
>
> Any ideas? I'm ready to give up.
>
> Joel
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
