[expert] Crashing on Bootup

[Roby, Eric]

System- 
Tyan Tomcat II Mobo w/latest BIOS 4.02
Cyrix P166+
64M
6.4 G   LBA Mode
/boot at start of drive
fat32 at 2nd partition (3.0G)
/swap at partition 3 - 64M
/ at partition 4 - 3.2G
LILO on Master Boot Record - In linear mode at this time.

Boots ok on boot floppy.

When booting from HDA:

Checks WP bit
Initializes VFS
Checks HLT instruction
Sees the Cyrix- (detects comma bug and enable workaround- same processor ok in other 
machine- even swapped them)
Dos POSIX Check
 
Gets to "calibrating APIC timer ... Invalid Operand"
Gives register dump and comes up with "Kernal panic- Attempted to kill the idle task! 
In swapper task not syncing"


Anyone have any Ideas? ( I did attempt a reinstall with the same options as the 
running system, a Cyrix 166+ on a Asus MOBO- Same results.)

Eric Roby

RE: [expert] SB PCI 128

[Roby, Eric]

I know that sndconfig locked up my Dell Dimension when not in single user mode.  After 
reading Civilme's info, I tried single user mode and got my onboard oplsa2 sound 
working right away.  I have had success in regular multiuser mode on other systems, 
but not this one.  I also look forward to trying single user mode on my other Dell 
when I get home.  Thanks Civileme.  (Of course the system at home has a Turtle Beach 
Monterey- H)

Eric

-Original Message-
From: Arandir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 1999 3:11 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Civileme
Subject: Re: [expert] SB PCI 128


On Wed, 04 Aug 1999, Civileme wrote:
 %_Well, my face was very red after I realized that sndconfig is set up to run
 properly only in single-user mode in the 6.0 scheme, and it is just as true
 for the RH version.  I failed to set up a SB Ensoniq in 5.3 and 6.0 but had
 no trouble in 6.0 after starting up in single mode

Are you sure about this? I've got sndconfig to work first time out of the box,
and I've never booted to single user mode ever.

Instead, it sounds like some service is interfering, and when you switch to
single-user, it turns the service off. Since sndconfig uses isapnp stuff, you
might also want to look at that.

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