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jorphis
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 Posted - 01/13/2006 : 12:22:45 PM
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So, a little background, I have a pos comp I got from my aunt that i bought a new hard drive for and installed Fedora Core on it. it worked for a while until I tried to upgrade the ram then it would start to boot then run through about 100 lines of text in half a second and say "Kernal panic - not synching: attempted to kill init!". Then I switched back to the old ram and it worked fine.
Then I got my dads old comp and put the old hard drive in the new comp as a slave and put my linux hard drive in his comp. It gave me the kernal panic error again. then I tried to put it back in the old comp and it kernal paniced again. Any ideas why it does that? |
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Rude
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Posted - 01/13/2006 : 2:30:30 PM
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Your install seems to have some very hardware sensitive settings... I can't honestly say I know what, because there's hundreds of places this could be true.
My advice is to try it in the old computer with the old RAM again. If it works there, you're probably going to have to recompile the kernel on that system and see what could be up with it. |
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jorphis
Omega Member
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Posted - 01/13/2006 : 2:38:44 PM
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| I have moved it back and it still panics. I'm thinking about just a reinstall of linux, is there a way to reformat from the bios or something? |
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Rude
Alpha Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 01/13/2006 : 2:42:53 PM
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My far-fetched idea is that, more likely than my previous guess, your new RAM is dodgy and Linux managed to eat itself while running with it.
You don't want to format your BIOS - just try reinstalling Linx with the new RAM in your PC. |
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mortex
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Mortex
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Posted - 01/13/2006 : 3:13:50 PM
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| YOu ****ed something up, format.... |
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jorphis
Omega Member
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Posted - 01/13/2006 : 3:36:26 PM
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| I don't mean reformat the bios, I mean reformat from the bios, and yeah, the RAM is way old and tiny, and deserves a spot in RAM hell. |
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jorphis
Omega Member
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213 Posts |
Posted - 01/13/2006 : 4:08:28 PM
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| I just tried to pop in the install cd and reinstall and let the partitioning clean it off, but when the cd screen came up i hit enter to install and it ran through lines of text like it usually does then when it got to running sbin/loader it stops for a bit then panics again, this time instead of "attempted to kill init!" it says "fatal exception in interrupt". what is going on? |
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sakuramboo
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USA
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Posted - 01/13/2006 : 6:15:07 PM
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| what is it trying to load when you get the error? what part of the boot? the exact line. |
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jorphis
Omega Member
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Posted - 01/13/2006 : 6:37:11 PM
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it says reading physical volumes, then it starts scrolling through lines. the last 2 lines are:
Bad EIP value
Kernal panic - not synching: attempted to kill init! |
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sakuramboo
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Posted - 01/13/2006 : 6:49:20 PM
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what version kernel are you trying to install?
usually, Bad EIP is an error with how the kernel handles BIOS. there are a few work arounds to get it working.
if you are using the LILO boot loader, press ESC when you get to the loader screen and type "linux nobiospnp" (without quotes). this should at least get you into the OS.
then, you are going to have to append a line in your /etc/lilo.conf file. for every "append=" line, add "nobiospnp" to it. save and run /sbin/lilo and reboot.
this is what we mean when we say "we need detail in your post." that "Bad EIP" message was all i needed. kudos and good luck with this. |
Edited by - sakuramboo on 01/13/2006 6:50:18 PM |
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jorphis
Omega Member
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213 Posts |
Posted - 01/13/2006 : 7:14:23 PM
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when i hit esc it goes to a screen that lets me do a few things:
1) edit commands before booting
2) edit arguments to the kernal
3) go to a command line
and the version are
GNU Grub .95
fedora core 2.6.9-1.667
not sure which one you wanted, sorry, i'm a linux newb |
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sakuramboo
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USA
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Posted - 01/13/2006 : 7:24:11 PM
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ewwww, you are using grub.
when you get to the grub loader, make sure that you have the kernel you want to boot from highlighted (in case you are running multiple kernels) and hit 'e'. this will show you the commands being issued to the kernel at boot. 'e' again will allow you to modify the actual lines. add 'pnpbios=off ' and hit enter to save. then 'b' will boot.
give that a shot and see how it works out. |
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jorphis
Omega Member
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Posted - 01/13/2006 : 7:41:16 PM
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I got "error 27: unrecognized command" then "press any key to continue..." which took me back the the screen that added commands.
And also real quick, Grub is the boot loader? and there are other boot loaders? |
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sakuramboo
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Posted - 01/13/2006 : 7:44:16 PM
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yes, lilo is the boot loader i use. i dont recommend grub. sure, its nice and flashy, but lilo uses more of a common sense command line interface. there are too many option to remember with grub. lilo is pretty basic.
if you can only use grub, ill search around for a fix.
EDIT: okay, there is some stuff you are gonna have to figure out first in order to get this to work.
1. the name and file location of your kernel image.
2. where your root partition is located at.
if you know both of those, then add the line...
kernel <kernel image file> root=<root partition> ro quiet splash pnpbios=off
i put <> in to tell you where you need to put the information. dont actually put <> in the line. but, that should get you booted into your OS.
another thing you should also do is update your BIOS. once you get your computer working, download a new img file for your BIOS. put it on floppy and reboot booting off floppy. that sould install the new BIOS firmware. then, you might not have to do this command everytime. |
Edited by - sakuramboo on 01/13/2006 7:53:05 PM |
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jorphis
Omega Member
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213 Posts |
Posted - 01/13/2006 : 7:53:40 PM
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| I wouldn't know how to change boot loaders, but i'll do the searching, you don't need to. |
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sakuramboo
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Posted - 01/13/2006 : 7:57:27 PM
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quote:
Originally posted by jorphis
I wouldn't know how to change boot loaders, but i'll do the searching, you don't need to.
no problem. ive been doing this for a while now, i know exactly where to go and what to search for so it takes me minutes (if that) to find the information.
and, normally, when you install linux, you have the option to select which boot loader you wanna use (assuming, they give you the option). redhat and fedora gives you the option, while slackware can only install lilo (as an example). |
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Kernal Panic, O Noes!!!!
