[plug] Error starting RedHat 6.0 on a laptop

[Mike Holland]

On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Paul Baumgarten wrote:

> 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

> pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
> apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.9)
> general protection fault: 0000

This looks like the kernel startup phase, before any config files are
read. So the only options would be to change your kernel, bios settings,
boot options (set by lilo) or hardware. [right? what have i missed?]

  Have you searched to see if others have managed to run linux
on your kind of laptop? Some can be a problem.

> Given that the apm is the last item mentioned before the crash I would
> assume that it is the cause, however I reinstalled and told Redhat NOT to
> start apmd at startup.  It's got me beat.

The crash is before daemons start anyway.

So you could re-install? Why does it boot OK for installation but not
afterwards? Are you running a different kernel to that on
the install CD? Do you have options in /etc/lilo.conf ? (esp for APM)

Try disabling APM in the bios.

Mike Holland <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>            Perth, Australia.
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