Re: 2.4.20 kernel crashes while scanning partition list

From: Doug McNaught (doug@mcnaught.org)
Date: Sun Jan 26 2003 - 10:28:10 EST


Peter Karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se> writes:

> Me, last week:
>
> > I am installing Debian Linux on my new Athlon XP PC, and I have
> > problems with the 2.4.20 kernel crashing on boot.
>
> So, no one has any good ideas on what might be wrong with the 2.4.20
> kernel? I must say that it's quite irritating to have a brand new
> computer just standing around unusable because I can't run Linux on it
> :-(

Have you tried 2.4.21pre? It may have fixes to handle newer hardware.

Does the machine pass memtest86?

-Doug
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