FC2 kernel panic at boot of cd

[John DeDourek]

Go to bugzilla.redhat.com and check out the following
bugs:
115348
125348
129832
129838

John DeDourek wrote:

> There is a widely experienced problem with the CDRom
> driver in Fedora Core 2 and certain models of CDRom.
> You can search Bugzilla for that problem and determine
> whether the actual error messages accompanying your
> panic are the same as those of the bug.  Unfortunately,
> no one has found a solution last time I looked except
> to replace the CDRom drive with a newer model.  The
> problem was present up to Fedora Core 3 test 1.  I have
> not tested Fedora Core 3 test 2 as of yet on one of
> the problem machines.  Note that Fedora Core 1 will
> install successfully on the problem machines here.
> 
> 
> Ted Kaczmarek wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 11:22, David.Grudek at anixter.com wrote:
>>
>>> I am trying to boot up with the install cd and as soon as hit enter 
>>> at the prompt to start the install it says kernel panic.  It also 
>>> says stuff above that about acpi and drivers.  I know it is not the 
>>> cd because it boots up fine in another machine.  The board is a 
>>> giga-byte server board GA-8egxr-el.  It says on the giga-byte web 
>>> site that it is supported by redhat 8 so I would assume that FC2 
>>> would handle it.   I ran the memtest and it passed fine.  It has 1G 
>>> DDR ram.  I also have a 2.66Ghz xeon processor.  I have tried all 
>>> these different modes.  Text, expert, mem=1024M, and noprobe.  I do 
>>> not know what else to do.  Any help would be appreciated.
>>>
>>
>> Try removing any hardware that you don't need for install, you may get
>> lucky. Otherwise check the kernel archives for issues with your mobo.
>>
>> Ted
>>
>>
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