Kernel 2.6 panic

[Erik Rissanen]

I tried to install the 2.6 kernel according to the instructions in the
following post:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-December/msg04465.html

I am using the 2.6.0-1.21 kernel from
http://people.redhat.com/davej/FedoraCore2/

The RPM would not install properly since mkinitrd failed on the
ncr53c8xx module. I removed the ncr53c8xx line from /etc/modules.conf
and the RPM installed. I am using the ncr53c810 card just for a CR-ROM
and a ZIP-drive, so it is no big deal if those wouldn't work.

However, when I boot the new kernel, it quickly panics. Here is the
output (written with a pen on paper, so there might be some typos):

ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
PnPBIOS: Scanning System for PnP BIOS support...
PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f5350
PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0x5f3a, dseg 0cf0000
general protection fault: 0000 [#1]
CPU:  0
EIP: 0098:[<00002b70>]   Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010083
EIP is at 0x2b70
eax: 000023d6  ebx: 0000007a  ecx: 00010000  edx: 0000001
esi: 0000245e  edi: f7f4006d  ebp: f7f40000 esp: f7f4bebe
ds: 00b0  es: 00b0  ss: 0068
Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo=f7f4a000 task=f7feb9b0)
Stack: 000003d6 23d629e2 00000000 815d006d 0000d3ff 00010001 bf1080fc
006dd408
       bf100000 d3ffbeec 00060001 61f90c0c 010c010c 007b6054 a000007b
00a00000
       601000b0 00a85fd6 00b00092 000b0001 00010090 00a80000 00b00000
00a00001
Call Trace:

Code: Bad EIP value.
<0>Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill init!


My computer is a 2.6 GHz P4 on an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe with 1 GB of
ECC-RAM. The video card is an ATI 9800 nonpro.

The above trace is from the smp kernel, but even the up one panics.

Just in case anyone is interested. :-)

/Erik