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Segmentation fault when booting

Bug #60268 reported by Tom Sparks
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Bug Description

I am trying to load Live CD of 6.06 and/or the Alternate Install CD 6.06 on an older PC. The hardware is a Pentium III with 192 megs. It has a CDrom, floppy and Zip drive.
Both loads go fine, but when I boot, I immediately get a Segmentation 0 fault.

I can load vers 5.10 and it runs just fine.

Could this be a hardware issue with the kernel in 6.06?

Thanks!

-tom

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Tom Sparks (tom2723) wrote :

Later in today...
Just for grins, I removed the floppy, zip drive and sound card and reloaded the Alternate Install CD 6.06 and I worked! No Segmentation Fault.

Hope this helps...

-tom

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Tom Sparks (tom2723) wrote :

Further testing shows the culprit. When I reinstalled the sound card and booted, I got the Segmentation Fault.

It's a Creative Labs, Model CT4810.

-tom

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Tom Sparks (tom2723) wrote :

Well...I was not correct. I got the Segmentation fault again. I pulled cables on the floppy and zip drives. Still there. I've tried both Ubuntu Live 6.06 and my downloded ISO CD. Still no go.

There must be some other piece of hardware in this old PC that it doesn't like.
I gave up and loaded Win2000 and everything is just fine. I HATE windows, but I don't want an old version of Ubuntu on here.

-tom

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Could you please try booting without "splash" and "quiet"? That should get you a better idea were it fails.

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Paolo Sammicheli (xdatap1) wrote :

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.

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