[plug] Error starting RedHat 6.0 on a laptop

[Bevan Broun]

on Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 04:05:03PM +0800, Paul Baumgarten <paul at kcc.wa.edu.au> wrote:
> I thought "General Protection Fault" was something I would only ever see in
> Windoze but anyway...
> 
> I have installed RedHat 6.0 on a laptop and in the early stages of
> initialisation (basically within the first screen of text after LILO) I get
> the following:
> 
> ---------------------------
> ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
> apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.9)
> general protection fault: 0000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[<c0107196>]
> EFLAGS: 00010046

Im getting a GPF on a linux box too :-) Im quite sure that either the
memory or the cpu is stuffed.

BB
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