[GRLUG] Newbie running into real headaches

[john-thomas richards]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 12:13:15PM -0400, Benjamin Woolley wrote:
> Hi all-
> 
> I am attempting my first real linux installation, with the intended result
> of having a MythTV server to run the media in my house.
> 
> I have downloaded and installed the latest Fedora Core and updated it with
> YUM. Then things start to get flakey.
> 
> I was having segmentation faults when I was trung to install MythTV, and now
> it has gotten to the point where I cannot even boot into Linux anymore. I
> get the following message during the boot process, and it just keeps cycling
> through the boot after that.
> 
> "kernel panic - not syncing  pci dma memory would be corrupted"
> 
> Being a windows guy in my former life, I have no idea where to look to fix
> this problem. At first I thought it might be a corrupted memory stick. I
> have 2x 512 sticcks, so I popped one out and tried to boot. I got the same
> result, so I tried it with the other, and unfortunately got the same thing.
> Am I barking up the wrong tree with regards to a hardware issue? The
> hardware ran fine for nearly 3 years under XP.
> 
> Any help you might suggest would be greatly appreciated. I really don't want
> to scrap Linux and go back to M$ if I can avoid it.

What sort of PCI cards do you have in your system?  The error message deals
with the PCI subsystem.  I am not much of a hardware guy, but I do not think
RAM uses the PCI bus.
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john-thomas
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