Please Help

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Topic: Please Help
started by: enialis

Posted by enialis on Mar. 27 2005,01:06

First off id like to start by saying the only experince Ive had with Linix is the one time I borrowed the Red Hat Linux Bible 9 and installed Red Hat on a machine that someone was throwing away and I got fromt them. That was a long time ago (well not too ,ong ago) Recently the libray at my shcool gave me an old out of date computer and I decided to put linux on it. I couldnt use Red Hat because of the RAM on the machine, and im stuck on dialup so DSL (with its size and all) seemed like the perfect distro for me.

So, I booted froma the cd I made from the iso i downloaded (unalterd) it ran fine untill after a bunh of characters in () scrolled down the screen and i recieved the message

"unable to handle kernal paging request at virtual address c2000000
Printing eip: c0108bf8 pde = oooooooo" or somehtuing close to that... and it did not do anything else

So I tried to boot with failsafe, The first time it came to a screen that wanted me to choose between to settings (the first one was "more flexible and fast" you know what im talking about)
I choose the first and got the same result, i restarted and chose the second option after choosing my nouse go this message

" modprobe:modprobe: cant locate module fbo XIO: fatale IO error 104 (connection reset by peer) on Xserver "0,0" after 0 requests (0 known processes) with 0 events remianing"

and I get command line...

So what do I do? With the command Line I partioned my hard drive and installed dsl to hda2 and attempted to run it with lilo boot loader and got the exact same results. So what is going on? What do I do? I know that this post is a little long but I wanted to be detailed because as a linux newb I didnt know exaclty what infor you guys needed.

(Oh, and one more thing, if this post is in the wrong placeI apologize, but I couldnt find exaclty where to put it...)

Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 27 2005,04:35

What is your computer model / manufacturer?

For a shot in the dark, try this:

dsl vga=785 atapicd nosound noapic noacpi acpi=off noscsi noapm nousb nopcmcia nofirewire noagp nomce nodhcp xsetup

and choose the xfbdev server.

Good Luck.

Posted by enialis on Mar. 27 2005,17:16

E machine running this hardware

Cyrix® M-II 333 MMX (w/ 512KB)
32MB SyncDRAM (upto 256 MB)
ATI Rage IIc 3D AGP with 4MB SDRAM
Crystal CS4235 3D Audio
HP cd-writer 9300 series
40gb hard drive (Western Digital)
3.5" 1.44MB FDD
56K* ITU V.90 PCI Fax/Modem
PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse
Stereo Speakers
2 USB Ports (1 is on Front)
1 Serial / 1 Parallel / 3 Expansion Slot
Audio In & Out / Game Port on Front

Posted by enialis on Mar. 27 2005,21:01

I tried your suggestion and got the same results, what to try now?

Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 27 2005,22:30

Try the same command with

mem=32M

added to the end of the line.