[plug] trouble installing Redhat 9

[Craig Foster]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au 
> [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf Of David Buddrige
> Sent: Saturday, 26 March 2005 10:32 PM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: [plug] trouble installing Redhat 9
> 
> Hi all, 
> 
> I've an old PII 333Mhz with 64MB RAM, which I am trying to 
> set up as an internet proxy server.  I'm atttempting to 
> install Redhat 9 on it.  I've managed to get through the 
> install ok, and the dialog saying that the install was 
> successful has been displayed, however when I reboot the 
> machine, I get a series of what appear to be kernel messages 
> saying things
> like: 
> 
> do_reset1 [kernel] 0x190
> handle_vm86_fault [kernel]
> secure_tcp.sequence_number
> ip_defrag [kernel] 
> 
> It is important to note that this is not the full messages - 
> they scroll off the screen, and repeat over and over, so its 
> a bit tricky to note them all down [and there's lots of them also]. 
> 
> Has anyone seen this problem before?  Could it be a dicky 
> hard drive ?  or perhaps somethign else? 
> 
> thanks heaps guys, 
> 
> David. 

David, 

Have a look here regarding the use of  "noapic" at startup:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-install-list/2003-October/msg00269.ht
ml
And if you want to make Grub and lilo "noapic" changes permanent:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-install-list/2003-October/msg00271.ht
ml
(you might have to google for better Grub editing instructions than they can
give :)

This guy has a cyrix, but I'm guessing the install has tried to use APIC,
which not all older boards support properly. And other motherboard support
for ACPI is another matter completely... I have seen some freaky things from
machines until I've used noacpi during boot, just not this. It's also
affected other flavours of linux, so I'd suggest working it out before
considering other distributions.

I've also got two other suggestions...

1) go to www.fedoralegacy.org and read up on the system to update RH9 to
similar versions as Fedora, where all the fixes are now distributed.

2) Have you looked at using something tailored to router work, such as
IPCOP? Of course if this is not a standard router or it's for learning, etc,
just ignore this suggestion... :) 

Regards,

CraigF