Kernel panics

[Mark Walker]

How does one fix that?  My recent install of YDL 2.3 is unusable due to
kernel panics.
I've used Linux distros from RedHat 6 -7.3 and Mandrake 8 and have not had
as many problems as I've had with YDL.

> At 5:14 PM -0700 9/1/02, Mark Walker wrote:
>> Would kernel panic of type as this: kernel access of bad area pc c0041c28 lr
>> c003af6c address 5EAD0030 tsk updated/969 indicate bad RAM or bad blocks on
>> the hard drive?
> 
> Doesn't necessarily mean either one.  That message gets printed when
> the kernel tries to do a memory access that is illegal.  For example,
> it could be an attempt to read or write a virtual address that there
> is no page table entry for, or a memory access that causes a page
> fault during an interrupt -- that kind of thing.
> 
> It's an error which could conceivably happen due to bad RAM or bad
> disk blocks, but is more likely to be a bug in the kernel somewhere.