From: kowal@stsci.edu (Charles Kowal,,4535) Subject: Re: Help: Cannot Install Linux for 4 days!!! Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 00:38:22 GMT
From article <C7p0BF.Ist@cs.columbia.edu>, by mikhail@cs.columbia.edu (Mikhail Kishelev):
> Can anyone, please, give me any suggestion what to do!
>
> I am trying to install Linux on my 486/33DX with 8M RAM. I have
> recently acquired 4M out of these 8Megs and the new ones are 70ns,
> while the old are 80--can it be a cause? So every time I try to
> install Linux, at some point I get a message "unable to handle kernel
> paging request at address <address>" plus some other garbage and after
> this the system hangs (it must have happened already 80 times).
> I have no idea what to do and feel disappointed (in both Linux and my
> machine).
>
You might try disabling your external cache. It worked for me. Just go
into your BIOS setup program, choose the advanced options, and change it.