From: quantum@stein.u.washington.edu (Tsung-lung Li) Subject: Installation question: Kernel panic .... Date: 18 Apr 1993 10:37:39 GMT
Hello,
After my failure to install linux from a1.test, I tried to start from
a1. The followings are what I did.
1. Insert a1 in drive a: and boot the system. The following message appears.
Linux version 0.99 pl6-26
Loading 655360 bytes to ram disk
2. Insert a2 in drive b: (I assume a2 is what the "utility disk" prompted by the
installation program.)
Drive b: starts to run forever. And the following message shows up.
task[0](Swapper) killed: unable to recover
Kernel panic: Trying to free up swapper memory space
In swapper task - not syncing
My system is a 486DX2/66 with 16 MB RAM and 240 MB HD. It is a VESA local
bus machine. Is my hardware suitable for Linux?(I am asking this because I
found some of the documents say that Linux does not support VESA, but some
otehr documents say that it does. ..... I have been reading all of these docs,
they are too many for me to remember from which doc I read what.)
I have been very frustrated by this installation. Any help will be very much
appreciated.
Tsung