Halbert Thiodore wrote: >On Tue, 21 May 2002, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 08:44:28PM -0700, Halbert Thiodore wrote: >> >> >>>I've seen several posting regarding assertion failure (I also have that >>>problem since rh 7.2 and 7.3!!). Is it a bug or something? >>> >>Yes, it is either a bug, or something [else]. It is hardware failure >>in some cases, a core VFS bug in others, an ext3 bug in others. >> > >Hardware failure is not possible in this case because everything is smooth >under windows 98. > >--cut-- > >>>Sometimes low-level format needs to be done if we want to do reinstallation >>>because otherwise during formatting the filesystem in graphic mode, rh will >>>prompt error msg regarding some serious problem has occur at /dev/hda#. If >>>the installation was done in text mode, you could see that in fact the >>>serious problem was the assertion failure. After that, the computer become >>>hang and the caps-lock and scroll-lock button's light on the keyboard are >>>blinking. >>> >>Please tell us the exact kernel version, hardware config, and the text >>of the error. Without precise information, we can't diagnose >>problems, we can only guess. >> > >Well.. now even worse.. low-level format doesn't do the trick anymore. Here is >the error pop up when the installation step is at copying image to harddrive >(the one after formatting the filesystem and /boot): > >cpu: 0 >eip: 0010 [<c0134c1>] not tainted >eflags: 00010202 >eip is at (2.4.18-3) >eax: cfda0302 >esi: 0000e >ds: 0018 >process swapper (pid 1, stackpage = c13153000) >stack: 09000000 00000000 0000000 000000 00000000 00000002 00000000 > cfda32d0 ce6cd230 0000000 ........ etc. >call trace: [<c0138765>] >[<c013924>] >[<c0137ae6>] >[<c01382bf>] >[<c013843a>] >... >... > >code 66 39 43 0c 8b 7b 20 0f 85 9c 00 00 00 8b 4b 30 85 c9 0f 84 > ><0> Kernel panic: attempted to kill init! > > >And the specs of the comp: >AMD K7 500 Mhz >Mem: 256 MB pc-100 >HDD: Quantum Fireball 7.5 GB IDE/ATA (It's really in a fireball now :~( ) >Kernel: don't remember, but it's the one comes with rh 7.3 > >At this moment, my comp doesn't have rh installed and it won't let me >install the OS by giving the above msg. > > >Halbert > memtest86 is your friend ;-) Take test program from http://www.teresaudio.com/memtest86/ Good luck, Florian
