[ILUG] Kernel Panic

[Stephane Dudzinski]

Google says it's a lilo parameter issue.

I would definitly download memtest86 and boot from a floppy to test your
box.

On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 14:51, Declan Grady wrote:
> I dusted off (literally) an old 486DX4/100, added 2 more 8 Meg simms, a 1.2
> gig ide disk and stuck in a redhat boot floppy (made with rawrite from the
> redhat 7.0 cd)
> 
> It boots, and I type  'expert'  (seeing as i is one ;) ) but...
> 
> All is ok until I get to ...
> 
> hda: WDC AC21200H, ATA DISK drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> hda: WDC AC21200H, 1222MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=621/64/63
> Floppy drive(s):fd0 is 1.44M
> FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
> md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
> raid5: measuring checksumming speed
>    8regs     :    64.008 MB/sec
>   32regs     :    34.290 MB/sec
> using fastest function: 8regs (64.008 MB/sec)
> scsi : 0 hosts
> scsi : detected total.
> md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
> Partition check:
>  hda:hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> Kernel Panic: Free list corrupted
> ll_rw_block: device 01:00: only 1024-char blocks implemented (0)
> 
> and thats it ... is this a hard disk problem ?
> 
> The mobo has an onboard NCR-SCSI bios and there is a 540 meg scsi disk, but
> I disabled the onboard scsi controller, as I think there are probs with that
> controller anyway, from memory.
> 
> Suggestions ?  (Apart from "recycle it")
> 
> Cheers,
> Declan
> [NODIS]
> 
> 
> 
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