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Topic: Install problems, Problems installing to hard drive

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morpheus

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Posted: Jan. 22 2007,13:32

Hello, I'm new to DSL, and only been using Linux for a few months. I have an older PC I dug out from under the stairs and I'm trying to resesitate it before sending it to the computer graveyard. The hardware consist of a 150mhz Pentium, 32mb of ram, and currently a 500mb hd, although I've also tried using a 2gig hd and obtained the same results. Because the hardware is older, I'm using the syslinux install.

The problem, I'm receiving an error stating
Init: Panic: segmentation violation at 0x804e19a! sleeping for 30 seconds.

I've tried using different options when booting, dsl 2 base mem=32 failsafe etc, all to an avail. Although the hardware is older, according to the DSL web site, I meet the minimum requirements.

Thank you in advance for your help!

^thehatsrule^ Offline

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Posted: Jan. 22 2007,14:20

Is your cd media burnt correctly? (I'm assuming you meant the syslinux cd image)

Did you also try the super lowram method described in the wiki?
Also, the mem=32 should be mem=32M
Are there any errors before the panic?

skaos

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Posted: Jan. 22 2007,15:26

0x804e19a (hexadecimal) = 134537626 (decimal)

It looks like DSL tries to access some memory around 134 MB - which you don't have. Try thehatsrule's suggestion. If it still doesn't work, try http://www.toms.net/rb/ and see if that boots. If it doesn't, some of your hardware may be too special.

morpheus

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Posted: Jan. 22 2007,15:56

The CD media is burt correctly, I checked it with md5sum. I'm using the syslinux cd image when I receive the INIT Panic errors.

I've tried the "lowram" option during boot, and this did not work either. Sorry about the typo with mem=32; I did use mem=32M when I tried the option at boot time - didn't work.

Using the current.iso and and a boot disk(floppy), I am able to get to a prompt root@tty1[dsl]# after hitting ctrl c to stop the following loop.

Code Sample

cloop: error -3 uncompressing block 99 65536/0/30902/0 1889597-1920499
I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 3852
cloop: Read error at pos 1889597 in file /cdrom/Knoppix/Knoppix, 30902 bytes lost

I do receive a lot of other errors before getting to the loop in above code, but the errors scroll by so fast I cannot see them all. Here are a couple of the errors I was able to see:

Code Sample

IO error: dev 0b:00, sector 84204, another error is the same with the sector being 84208
scsi0: error on channel 0,id0, lun0, CDB: 0x03 00 00 00 40 00
cloop: error -3
The error INIT Panic error I receive continues to loop forever.

Being a newbie, I'm not sure what all this means, but I hope the information provided allows us to get DSL to run on this PC.

Just a thought, is it possible to install from the command line, now that I'm here?