Error installing linux

[jamin123]

Please any one knows what's the meaning of this "kernel BUG at slab.c:1238" during linux installation.
Is it a hard drive issue or PCI card issue? I'd linux running on the P166 then I swapped video, NIC and sound card and tring to upgrade or reinstall when I get that erro.
Using ATI rage Pro, 3Com 10/100 and sound blaster. I may have to downgrade to the old cards that works.

 

[Nothinman]

Without knowing the distribution, kernel version or the oops backtrace that leads up to the BUG it's impossible to say. Essentially a driver asked the kernel to create a slab cache with kmem_cache_create but didn't specify any options in CREATE_MASK which is invalid, at least if the slab.c I'm looking at is the same as the version used in the kernel you're using.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Kernel version?
Distribution?
Distribution version?
When do you get this error?

 

[drag]

Usually, I my experiance, errors like crashes and kernel oops during install is a problem with the install media.

some bad information gets written to disk and it causes it to f-up when it tries to read it into memory. Usually caused by errors introduced during burning the cdrom. Maybe try to burn it again, with a different program maybe (in windows Nero worked the best for me)

Usually on the server you downloaded the ISO image from they have a file that contains the md5sum hash of the image. So you can test the download by running 'md5sum filename' on the file, then if your using Linux you can test the cdrom itself by going 'md5sum /dev/cdrom' (or whatever /dev file your cdrom drive is). They should all match. If the OS your installing has a 'test media' option during install be sure to do that.