[OT]: Laptop Installation: Kernel panic

[Angelika Morre]

Hallo,

vielleicht etwas OT,  aber ich wollte auf einen neuen (gebrauchten) Laptop 
Win98 und Debian installieren. Bei der Win 98 Installation kommt es jedoch 
zur Fehlermeldung:

Standard Mode: Fault outside of MS-DOS Extender

Microsoft sagt dazu http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q87239/

This error message occurs when the fault handler dispatcher in DOSX.EXE 
generates another cascaded fault while trying to handle a protected-mode 
exception. This error is usually caused by one of the following factors:

• HIMEM.SYS is unable to control the A20 line.
• DOS=HIGH is not functioning properly (related to HIMEM.SYS control).
• The RAM, static RAM (SRAM), single in-line memory module (SIMM), or dynamic 
RAM (DRAM) chips are not functioning properly.
• You are running DR DOS.
• The third-party memory manager is not configured correctly.
• The EMM386.EXE NOEMS x=A000-EFFF line is missing from the Config.sys file.
• You have an old, out-of-date ROM BIOS.
• Your CMOS settings are incorrect.
• Your Windows files are old or corrupted. To test this, create a new 
directory on the hard drive, and install Windows in that directory.
• Your disks are corrupted.
• Your system is infected with the Form, Forms, Noint, or Yankee Doodle virus.

Debian bzw. Suse lassen sich nicht installieren. Installation bei Debian 
bricht mit kernel panic ab. Will jetzt nicht alles abtippen, ist aber ganz am 
Anfang.

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000f190
printing eip:
....
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
In idle task - not syncing.

 Knoppix l�sst sich ebenfalls nicht starten. Ist es vielleicht ein RAM- 
Problem?

Gru�
Angelika