[Cialug] EIP Value

Paul Gray gray at cs.uni.edu
Thu Jan 19 11:14:40 CST 2006


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On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 09:34:49AM -0600, Stuart Thiessen wrote:
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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.
> 

Does the lnx-bbc image boot on it?

  http://lnx-bbc.org


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