Hello,

I've never posted anything to a forum before - so please bear with me!!

I'm trying to install SuSE 7.1 (kernels 2.2.18 and/or 2.4) onto a Abit BP6 with 2 433MHz celerons, 256MB, 20GB hard disk.

I follow the instructions on the SuSE boot cdrom, which works fine, it automatically installs the SMP version of both of these two kernels - this sounds ok to me so far.

However, when the machine reboots, I get the following message (or words to that effect) after the usual kernel messages etc:

A message about setting the CMOS clock, followed by

Unable to dereference null pointer

... more stuff ...

oops ....

... lots of stack dump, followed by Kernel Panic - trying to kill the idle task.

I haven't got all the details in front of me at the moment - but I could get them if it will help.

Any help would be gratefully appreciated!

Raj