Before I was interupted with the Texas Trip, I had built a computer. I built a rather elaborate Mulitmedia PC that was intended to run Linux.

AMD64 3200+ CPU
Foxconn motherboard with PCI express
Nvidia 6600 PCI Express Graphics card
DVD RW
2-160 GB SATA drives
PCHDTV Card
Twinhan Sateliite Receiver Card
WinTVGo TV receiver
old TV receiver card that I am trying to figure out what to do with.

So, I bought a static strap and put it all together. Took a while, but I wasn’t rushing things.

Then I loaded a Fedora Core 3 image disk and started it up. No sparks, buzzes or smoke. The drive started up, the monitor lit up and something was happening. Then everything hung and I had a ‘kernel panic’. This is not good and I need to start tracking things down.

Evidently my configuration is cutting edge.

When I got back from Texas I tried to use the Hoary Ubuntu Live release and there was still a ‘kernel panic’

Onward to find out why I have a bad RIP value.