General protection fault
Simon McClusky
simon at wegener.mit.edu
Thu Feb 7 19:28:58 PST 2002
This afternoon I installed (from CD) scyld 27z-8 on a Pentium 4 2.2GHz.
The installation was flawless, but upon reboot I encountered a "general
protection fault". This fault occured in the boot sequence following the
ide1 at .......... on irq 15. Before the line that _should_ have listed
the hda disk geometry. I think this problem has something to do with the
kernel not being able to probe the disk correctly? The hda disk is a 72K
40Gb Seagate disk. The machine also has a 120Gb Western Digital disk
attached (should be hdb). My question can I resolve this problem using the
append command in lilo to tell the kernel what disk geometry to expect?
Has anyone else got scyld running on a similar P4 system? I can provide a
complete set of hardware specs if this would be useful. Posting the
complete boot sequence is difficult since the machine totally hangs after
the fault although I can do this too.
Thanks for any help with this problem
--Simon
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