Re: fresh install on crashed disk

[Tim Hurman <kano-tlug@example.com>]

Can you make a set of boot disks and boot from those. If so do you get the
same result?. The reason I ask is that it could be any number of things,
inclding CD errors, CD drive errors, IDE problems... However as two CDs
are fault, I would guess that the media is ok (you can check by sticking
it in your laptop and booting)

My personal favourite bookdisks are the slackware ones as they dont hide
any information from the user as they boot.

I have had this problem before although I dont think it is related, I
compiled a kernel using gcc 3.1 and an old version of gas got things
wrong.

Tim.

On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, legend wrote:

> Hi, I have a problem not being able to boot up my computer.
>
> Well, I just came back from a long vacation, and booted up
> my desktop PC in my dorm. The funny thing is that,
> after a while, it went back to a login prompt for some reasons,
> and I just couldn't login anymore.
>
> So I turned it off, and restarted again.. Apparently my file system
> got corrupted and even restoring superblock didn't work..
> So I ended up not being able to boot it again.
>
> Wells.. I've been using my laptop most of the time, and I was
> gonna install new Kondara distro on to this desktop anyways..
> So I just decided to do a fresh install.. but then, it won't even
> allow that.
>
> I get following messages after putting Kondara CD and booting
> the computer:
> ...
> Kernel command line: initrd=initrd.img text devfs=nomount BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz
> Initializing CPU #0
> Detected 400.915 MHz processor
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> Calibrating delay loop...  799.53 BogoMIPS
> Kernel BUG at page_alloc.c: 73!
> invalid operand: 0000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010: [<c0124de2>]
> EFLAGS:00010292
> ...
> ...
> Code: ...
> Kernel panic: Attempted to kil the idle task!
> In idle task - not syncing
>
>
> ...and it freezes right there..
>
> Using Win2k CD doesn't work as well..
> It says that there's an error at line 7038 of .SIF file. Then freezes..
>
> Would anyone know what I can do to fix this? And what exactly is going
> on here?
> All I want to do is to have fresh install. I don't really have any essential
> files
> in this computer.
>
> -mune
>
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