Hi Kastus, 'manual' - same error occurs. 'variety' have 32MB and up - but note this same PC was installed (and is running) with SuSE 6.1 YaST (0.9??) some time back. But we are not getting as far as YaST. It's bombing out right at the start of the boot kernel - and 16MB should be more than enough to hold the boot kernel yes? Any other ideas? Brgds, Tony At 13:43 03/09/2001 -0700, Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka wrote:
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 10:57:08PM +0300, Tony White wrote:
Hi,
Has anyone seen this: (or has any ideas?)
I have an old Compaq - 486DX2-66 with 16MB ram which has been running SuSE 6.1 for about 8 months as a gateway/router. I want to upgrade (reinstall) to SuSE 7.2, but when booting from the SuSE 7.2 bootdisk (standard, or i386), I get the boot: prompt - followed by 'loading initrd' - followed by 'loading linux' - but then, after the 'uncompressing linux' message, I immediately get the following error message:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
00000000
Followed by a register and stack dump, followed by:
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task! In idle task - not syncing
I should emphasise that the same boot disk sucessfully boots on a variety of other computers. I'm really stuck with this one!
What's the memory on variety of other computers? And what kind of installation do you select? Your problem is with low memory on that machine for YaST2 install.
YaST2 install requires 64 MB RAM, graphical YaST1 install requires 32 MB RAM, text YaST1 install requires 16 MB RAM
To get into text YaST1 install mode type manual at boot: prompt when you boot from bootdisk.
HTH, -Kastus
Thanks Tony
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