Buddy, what kind of cdrom do you have in the machine? Do you have anything connected to the parallel port? I was getting similar kinds of problems on my laptop, and discovered that I had a parallel cable that was only partially connected. If you can give me more specifics on the kind of disk controller you have, maybe there is some other driver I need to include in the kernel. Gene ><Heh> > >OK, so I'm trying to install Debian on my computer, and well, I think I'd >finish the install eventually (I've done manual workarounds for things that >don't quite go by themselves), except for a small problem. ... I keep >getting these errors and the computer completely locks. At least one time I >heard a "could not handle kernel paging request" error. ... And I'm not >really sure why. I thought I might have power management turned on, but I >don't. Only thing that I can think is wrong is a flaky system. I know, for >instance, the video card's a POS video card, and I'm going to replace that >straight away and try again. Also the network card could stand replacement, >but sometimes I get these errors before any of the network stuff gets >loaded. Any other ideas what might be causing this problem? > >Particulars: > >K6-2-300 system with 32MB RAM and a 2GB hard drive and Trident 4DWave sound >card; POS AGP video card, and POS NE2000 ISA ethernet card (on IRQ11 at >0x300). > >BTW, there's no particular time that these errors happen, just kinda >whenever. ... > >Once I get that tackled, I'll try to get lilo to boot successfully off the >hard drive. ... > >-- >Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV >Email: davros at ycardz.com >Voice mail: 877-791-5298 >All opinions are all mine! > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
