Re: [LUG] Help Please - EIP Value

[David Johnson <dj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Bell wrote:

> Can any guru help please:
>
> I have just assembled a box out of odds.  Good AT board with TX power
> supply, AGP ATI Rage pro Card, and a trusted HDD that I've been using on
> my Linux box until a couple of days ago.
>
> As the box is to be used by someone merely for e-mailing and bashing out
> the odd letter I Installed Win98SE.  It installed O.K. and powered down
> happily.  However, I decided to install Linux instead.
>
> I have tried various flavours of SuSE and Mandrake and both installed
> and configured happil.y but the box won't power down. The system hangs
> at the point the power is normally switched off and I get the following:
>
> CPU: 0
> EIP: Not tainted
> Bad EIP value.
>
> TIA
>
> David Bell
> Hatherleigh
> Devon
>
>  

Here's a suggestion I found from Alan Cox, no less:

A lot of old boxes have bioses where the
32bit power down function Linux normally uses is buggy. Building a
kernel with the apm real mode power down option might work better.

So it's custom kernel time.

It's probably also worth seeing what else you can find on Google: 
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Bad+EIP+Value&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en


David.



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