Problem while loading

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: Problem while loading
started by: Cookie-Del-Paso

Posted by Cookie-Del-Paso on Mar. 11 2006,22:10

Hi everybody

I don't know where to post my problem but i did here. I've tried to load DSL 2.2 today and i'm new in linux. I have a really old computer with 31mo ram. 3gig. And 100mHz. That's why i've choosen Damn Small Linux. But I can't load it. I'll write exectactly what happens.

DSL load..

I press enter

*Written*:
Loading Linux 24....................
Minirt24.gs.........................

You passed an undefined mode number
Press <return> to see different video mode, press <Space> to continue
(I press space)

Uncompressing linux... Ok booting the Kernel.

(I wait 20 seconds)

Oops: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010: [<00000000>] Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010282
eax: 00000000 ebx:00000003 ecx:00000cf8 edx:00000000
ds:0018 es:0018 ss:0018
Process swapper (pid:1, stackpage = c1069000)
Stack: c01ccc56 c035963c 00000003 00000003 c035963c 00000001 c024f9af 01860258
00000007 0b5a0078 c01c961d c035963c 0000000b c035963c c035958c 00000001
c01c98a3 c035963c 000000ff c0ld6608 c035963c 000000ff c03598cc 00000002

Call Trace: [<c01ccc56>] [<c024f9af>] [<c01c961d>] [<c01c98a3>] [<c01d6608>] [<c01d68ae>] [<c01d7117>] [<c01050ad>] [<c0107114>]

Code: Bad EIP value
<0> Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill unit

And it's frozen. That's it.. For me, it's russian.
And... I've try low memory mode or something like that.. Anyway, it shows the same text but upward, it's written

hdd: no response (status=0x80)
hdd: no response (status=0x80)
Unable to handle the Kernell NULL pointer deference at virtual adress 00000000 printing eip:
00000000
*pde=00000000
(Then the text i've written here)

Maybe it can help?

Thanks a lot ! I hope someone will understand

Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 12 2006,07:42

How about typing this in at the boot prompt:

failsafe mem=31M

(this assumes that you have 31MB of RAM. "mem" is lowercase letters and the "M" at the end is an uppercase letter)

or maybe type in:

lowram mem=31M

Posted by Cookie-Del-Paso on Mar. 12 2006,18:01

Hm... Doesn't seem to work, same thing appears.
Anyway, thanks for answering !

Posted by doobit on Mar. 12 2006,20:47

try this dsl vga=788 noapm noapci