Unable to handle kernel paging request problem at shutdown on 2.2.12

Unable to handle kernel paging request problem at shutdown on 2.2.12

[pavankvk]

hello folks

i recently installed a redhat ditribution 6.2(Linux kernel2.2.12)
my hardware is cyrix 233 with 32megs of RAM.

everything went fine during installation.the system is running fine to my knowledge.
The problem is with complete shutdown.when i give init 0 command,everything succeeded and the system is halted.But instead of getting a powerdown message finally, i got a error as below :

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffa00a 
00007598 
*pde = 00001063 
Oops: 0000 
CPU: 0 
EIP: 0068:[<00007598>] Tainted: P 
Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 
EFLAGS: 00210086 
eax: 000022ff ebx: 00806b06 ecx: 00000070 edx: 00000000 
esi: 0000000a edi: 00200000 ebp: c6f87737 esp: c6f83eb0 
ds: 0080 es: 0078 ss: 0018 
Process cat (pid: 8454, stackpage=c6f83000) 
Stack: 000a0002 00800000 00060078 7741757a 00000000 687a0070 6b1f3ee4 00180000 
       02460018 69740042 00960078 cb4c6000 0060000b 00000042 00800078 00000070 
       00000000 c01d3956 00000010 00200046 00000000 00200000 d0aa0018 c0110018 
Call Trace: [<c01d3956>] [<c0110018>] [<c01d39ac>] [<c01d402f>] [<c014ed1a>] 
   [<c0130ec6>] [<c0106b1b>] 


i had previously a windows 95 with harddisk partioned.i just formatted the hard drives before installing linux thru a bootable cdrom.my BIOS is Award BIOS.
Please help me out

Thanks
pavan


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Re: Unable to handle kernel paging request problem at shutdown on 2.2.12

[Alan Cox]

> everything went fine during installation.the system is running fine to my knowledge.
> The problem is with complete shutdown.when i give init 0 command,everything succeeded and the system is halted.But instead of getting a powerdown message finally, i got a error as below :

The kernel asked the BIOS to do an APM poweroff and the BIOS crashed. There
are a few BIOSes that fail when the 32bit APM poweroff interface is called,
notably in the old K6/Cyrix socket7 world. Its not actually going to do
any harm.