Initial floppy install 5.2.1 fails - error: fatal trap 9

[Martin Laflamme]

Hi,

Initial floppy install with 5.2.1.
We have 12 PCs for a classroom which are completely identical.  They have a P4P800-VM motherboard with updated BIOS.  The CPU is Intel 2.8 GHZ.  For the strangest reason, the install worked on 1 machine and failed on all the others we tried it on.  It is NOT the diskettes as we are using the same physical install diskettes for all these machines.  We thought it may be a BIOS problem - we checked the functionning system against all the other system - they are identical.  We have one other system which is different than the others and the install went also fine.

Now, the install works without a problem with 4.10 floppies.  Any idea?  It seems to fail before is starts to detect the pci-isa bridge but it was not an issue with our first machine.

pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 31.3 (no driver attached)
pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 31.5 (no driver attached)

Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while in kernel mode
cpuid = 0; apic id = 00
instruction pointer     = 0x58:0x2d6c
stack pointer           = 0x10:0xf80
frame pointer           = 0x10:0x0
code segment            = base 0xc00f0000, limit 0xffff, type 0x1b
                        = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 0, gran 0
processor eflags        = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
current process         = 0 (swapper)
trap number             = 9
panic: general protection fault

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Martin Laflamme
Operations VP
CCNA, CCNP, CCDA, CCDP
Cisco Certified Academy Instructor
martin at marketbridge.com

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