More on RH install

Wed, 1 May 2002 19:12:31 -0400

Yes Kevin your right. I used the same disks and installed on one of my boxes at home. NO problem but won't work here at work. (and I'm trying to convince them that Linux is a vable option here). I would think that it *has* to be hardware related except RH 7.1 works fine. Here is my hardware list (as I have it now)

AMD 1133 mhz processor
ABitK278 motherboard
Corsair PC133 cast 2 Ram (256mb)
IBM 40 gig harddrive
JTon B16 video card (based on teh NVida TNT2 chipset)
Sound Blaster PCI 128 sound card
Nic 1NTEL Pro 100 (okay we're not *sure* about this one)
and a Sony CD ROM
Kevin I'll try your idea. If anyone else have any ideas. Or if I need to give more details please respond (this is *really* bothering me). 

Carl P. 

> 
> From: Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com>
> Date: 2002/05/01 Wed PM 05:58:25 EDT
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: More on RH install
> 
> On May 1,  4:24pm, <cparrish@cox.net> wrote:
> 
> > Okay its NOT my disks.  I finally gave up and purchased some
> > official RH disks did the install and got the *same* error.  However
> > RH 7.1 is now running on the same box without a problem.  So at
> > first I thought that perhaps it was the ext3 file system so I
> > changed over to ext2 (after all *that's* working under RH 7.1) but
> > no still same error.  Anyone have any ideas on what I'm ruuning up
> > against here?
> 
> This is the kernel NULL pointer dereference problem, right?
> 
> As I recall from your previous message, you were working on ruling
> out memory problems, right?
> 
> It occurs to me that it could be a kernel problem.  If you have enough
> space on your disk, you could install RH 7.1 in one partition, and RH
> 7.2 in another partition.  Then, using 7.1, fetch a kernel update for
> 7.2 from Red Hat.  Then, mount the 7.2 partition, copy over the kernel
> RPM to some convenient location.  Do a chroot to the 7.2 system's /
> filesystem and use rpm to install the kernel.  Once that's done,
> hopefully, you'll be able to boot into 7.2...
> 
> Kevin
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