[Cialug] EIP Value

[Stuart Thiessen]

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I took out the network card and the EIP error is still there.

It is before the BIOS driver is detected and just after the 
autoconfiguring of devices. This is a Linux bootable CD that has 
imaging software setup. I just used it on another Windows computer and 
started working on a generic "home-built" computer that we had donated 
to us.  I wanted to back up the partition of this other clone computer 
before playing around with it so I could restore it if needed. It has 
Win 98 with some files. We had used it for any odds and ends Windows 
stuff. Now, I am planning to put Linux on it, but I wanted to be able 
to restore it to Win98 if needed.

But if I can't seem to get it up with a CD Linux, how would a regular 
work? :)

Anyway, it seems to be related to modprobe.old. It has EFLAGS then a 
set of values for eax, ebx, ecx, edx, esi, edi, dbp, esp, ds, es, ss. 
Then mentions Process modprobe.old Then Stack: with 8x3 matrix of hex 
values and then a Call Trace section with Code: Bad EIP value after it.

The NIC is out.  I have a video card, TV card, sound card, and SCSI 
card still in the system. Would you guys have any idea which is most 
likely to be the problem?  If not, I will just move them in and out to 
see what happens.

Thanks,

Stuart


On Jan 19, 2006, at 9:14, Paul Gray wrote:

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> On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 08:58:25AM -0600, Stuart Thiessen wrote:
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>> What would cause a bootup sequence to fail during an autoconfiguring
>> process and end up with a call trace and a CODE: Bad EIP value? Does
>> that have anything to do with the network card?
>>
>
> The Bad EIP message is just a symptom.  It indicates that the CPU 
> wasn't able
> to store the executable instruction pointer for some reason.  Where is 
> the
> bootup process just before the system goes into panic?
>
> Typically, a bad EIP message means that the system can't initialize a 
> certain
> piece of hardware, so I wouldn't ruled out your network card.  Can you 
> pull it
> and boot up successfully?
>
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