Installer crashes with kernel panic

[John]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:

>On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 09:20:14AM -0600, rodd ahrenstorff wrote:
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>>This on an older Gatway 1200 model, 333 Celeron, 128MB RAM:
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>>Kernel panic: fatal exception in interrupt
>>In interrupt handler - not syncing
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>>This occures right after "detecting hardware to find cdrom drives"
>>progress bar.  Not sure how to gather further info.  Stock Debian
>>installer works fine.
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>You'll need to find out which module load is triggering the crash, and file
>a bug with details of the relevant hardware.
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I'd run memtest on spec: it's a harmless enough way for your pooter to 
idle away an hour or too, and it certainly resolved a problem I had with 
Sarge with random segfaults in just about everything except the kernel.


A quick google will turn up ots home page and/or download location. You 
just need a small binary to copy to floppy.