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jamerando
10-02-2002, 06:38 PM
WHAT DOES "KERNAL PANIC: ATTEMPTED TO KILL THE IDLE TASK! IN IDLE TASK-NOT SYNCHING HDA:LOST INTERRUPT" MEAN?
AND WHAT THE HECK DO I DO ABOUT IT?
It's the error message I got when I thought I had finally gotten Mandrtake to install and the tried to reboot.
Ya know what? I would sure like to find out how much fun this o/s is, but I have been trying to install this thing for the past month and a half, and I am beginning to think it isn't gonna happen! >:(
JohnT
10-02-2002, 06:52 PM
Your going to have to give more info. Such as , are You dual-booting? What kind of hardware set-up, particulary drives? What did you do to prepare your HD for install? What kind of CPU?
mdwatts
10-02-2002, 07:20 PM
It could be related to certain bios settings.
Have you tried any web searches (especially Google for Linux) for any of the error messages?
You may find a clue to what the actual problem is.
Always try your distros support/usergroup site.
Try searching the LNO forums for 'HDA:LOST INTERRUPT' as I've seen that error posted once in a while.
jamerando
10-04-2002, 04:17 PM
I have a pentium 166 cpu, 2.2 G hd, 128M ram, 24x cdrom. The only o/s is the "apparently not installed" Mandrake. It never had windows on it, (could it be that drakinstall always assumes there IS a windows? If so there should be a way to override that assumption, right?)
I have tried different ways of formatting the hd, although I really don't have any idea what I'm doing. When I let Drak allocate it for me, I end up with 1.1 G root, 101M swap, and the remainder of the hd is home. I found out from a previous attempt at installing redhat (also failed) that it was recommended that I have 155M of swap (based on the size of the ram), so I tried that too, but that didn't seem to change it, either.
JohnT
10-04-2002, 05:44 PM
I know it's touted that Linux will work on anything , but that is true in one sense and not quite true in another. You've got a legacy machine attempting to install a version of Linux with a kernel intended for more modern machines. I would suggest a different kernel version (older) or a rebuild of the one you have. Here's a link to someone that had a very similar problem on an older box and how they overcame it.........................................
http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2002/02/lostinterrupt.html