On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 20:50:19 -0600 "John O'Shaughnessy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings, > > In the past, I've successfully installed Mandrake Linux 7.2, 8.0, and 8.1 on > a different PC. > > I recently purchased a new Dell C400 laptop > http://www.dell.com/us/en/bsd/products/model_latit_3_latit_c400.htm > > The installation process went smoothly. After I restarted the machine, LILO > starts up, and I selected the Linux installation. > > I saw one text line with Loading Linux........ > > Followed by the following: > > <0> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! e2 03 23 04 95 c0 f6 26 ] [ > <c0105000> ] > > The machine needs to be powered off to get beyond that point. > > The Dell C400 has an 866 MHz PIII-M 512 Mb RAM. It also has Intel 830M > Integrated UMA Graphics (shared with system memory). > Any suggestions? Any other information that I can provide? > > Thanks! > > John > > -- > John M. O'Shaughnessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maybe the 'shared with system memory' graphics is the problem? My suggestion: when booting, when the splash screen comes up, press <ESC> and at the prompt type 'linux mem=xyzM', without quotes of course, where xyz is the amount of RAM minus video memory. HTH, -Frans
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