[lug] unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00XXXXXXX

[John Karns]

He could also try booting from a rescue disk - either something like toms
root boot, a floppy made from an image on the RH CD's, or the RH CD
itself.  I assume that one of the RH CD's is bootable and offers a rescue
mode boot.


On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, D. Stimits said:

> Sai Krishna Balabhadrapatruni wrote:
> >
> ...
> > apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.14)
> > Starting kswapd v1.8
>
> One thing I forgot to mention...you did create swap space and run mkswap
> on the space? Plus, try to debug with apm disabled, it is a
> trouble-maker (just one more thing that has had lots of bug fixes
> recently). And lastly, if you *still* can't get things going, and you
> have a second computer, you can run the kernel debugger patches (best
> via an Alan Cox ac-series patched kernel) and get a stack frame from a
> second machine over the serial port, even if it has locked up. This
> would be a last resort sort of thing, but the Alan Cox series of kernels
> are themselves recommended even without kernel debugging:
> ftp://zeus.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/linux-2.4


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