[Cooker] Probs installing 9.0 on an old pentium machine

[Kimmo Hovi]

Hola.

In trying to upgrade my old workhorse, a PPro MMX 150 on an Abit AB-TX5
motherboard (No mouse, no bonus), after selecting the text installation, I
get a kernel panic at about 50% of Loading program into memory progress
bar. The system is equipped with an ne.0 compatible ISA NIC, a 3c59x.o
compatible ISA NIC, some S3 trident PCI card with 4 megs, and has 32+64
SIMM, 64+64 DIMM for a total of 224 megs, an 8G HD and a creative DVD rom
(recognised by the bios, too, whee) plus two 20 G disks not recognised by
the BIOS, but recognised by the kernel (Set to None in BIOS);

This with the 'alt0' (2.4.19-16mdk I believe) kernel, while booting the
system with text mem=224M and just text.

Kernel dump:

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CPU:0
EIP:0010:[c0131529]Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010206
eax: cbfae2a0   ebx: c120f1ac   exc: cvfae240   edx: 0035
esi: 0340   edi: 07ba   ebp: cdfc1e5c   esp: cdfc1e54
ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Process stage1 (pid: 9, stackpage=cdfc1000)
Stack: cdf84c78 c120f1ac cdfc1ec0 c0131ca7 c120f1ac 0340 0800 0010
   cdfc 1000 0002 0800 cbfae1e0 0292  cdf84bd0
   0292 c0208ea4  c120f1ac c120f1ac c01299dd c120f1ac 0001
Call Trace:[c0131ca7] [c01299dd] [ce8034f4] [ce803434] [c01244f5]
  [c0124a9f] [c0124e2d] [c0125118] [c012521f] [c0125118] [c012f5e4]
  [c0108a07]

Code: 66 89 72 0c c7 42 04 00 00 00 00 c7 42 3c 00 00 00 00 89 d1
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plus install exited abnormally :-( (No shit)

Any idea? My first guess would be that it's such an old motherboard
not all the bugfixes for the broken (?) chipsets it contains are included
in the bootup kernels =(

Is there a workaround for this, or do I just simply lose? (And go back to
The Other rpm system)

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Re: [Cooker] Probs installing 9.0 on an old pentium machine

[Oden Eriksson]

tisdagen den 29 oktober 2002 18.26 skrev Kimmo Hovi:

[snip]

 Is there a workaround for this, or do I just simply lose? (And go back to
 The Other rpm system)

Try install on the hard drive mounted on another machine, and then switch 
back?

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Re: [Cooker] Probs installing 9.0 on an old pentium machine

[J. Greenlees]

Oden Eriksson wrote:

tisdagen den 29 oktober 2002 18.26 skrev Kimmo Hovi:

[snip]



Is there a workaround for this, or do I just simply lose? (And go back to
The Other rpm system)



Try install on the hard drive mounted on another machine, and then switch 
back?


it does seem to actually only affect the 200mhz pentium-mmx
this was discussed on the list just before 9.0 release, and I remember 
several people claiming success with slower or faster cpu, but not with 
the 200 mhz . ( which is actually the platform I'm using to develop on. )
Jaqui

re[Cooker] Probs installing 9.0 on an old pentium machine

[J. Greenlees]

I just downloaded 9.0 (again) and successfully installed on pentium-mmx 
200mhz system.

the problems that I had just before release have been fixed.
(isn't it nice to hear something nice? ;) )