FC3 Installer/Kernal crash

[Nathaniel Mallet]

Hello,

I'm trying to install Fedora Core 3 on a relatively new machine about
1 month old, but the installer is crashing early on. I get the install
type selection page, but whatever installer I choose, it crashes early
on in the boot process. Here's my machine spec:

Motherboard: MSI 915P (Onboard LAN, Audio)
HD1: 120GB Western Digital SATA
HD2: 80 GB Western Digital SATA
Memory: 2GB
Video: ATI X700Pro 256MB PCI-Express
DVD-ROM: LG 16x
CD RW: LG 52x32x52

I tried Suse 8.1 Personal, and I get roughly the same error, so it's
NOT distro specific. I'm just prefer FC3, and I'd like to run that
one.

The screendump I get when the system crashes follows.

Thanks in advance,

Nat

** SCREENDUMP **

CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<c00f0488>] Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.9-1.667)
EIP is at 0xc00f0488
eax: 00006100 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00002503 edx: 25808086
esi: 00000000 edi:c03798cc ebp: 00000000 esp: dfc87f70
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process Swapper (pid 1, threadinfo=dfc87000 task=dfcb1730)
Stack: b1000300 c00f026b c00f028d 00000300 000098cc 00002580
         0100b102 8086c00f 00540000 0246c00f c02a4cd0 00000060
         dfc87fbe dfcab400 00000000 00000000 c02a51b9 dfc87fbe
         dfc87f6f c03c6d86 dfc87fc0 dfc87fc0 dfc87fc0 c03d1674
         00000000
Call Trace:
[<c02a4cd0>] pci_bios_find_device +0x19/0x38
[<c02a51b9>] pcibios_sort +0xc9/0x14b
[<c03c6d86>] pcibios_allocate_resources +0xeb/0xfc
[<c03c77e7>] pcibios_init +0x65/0x68
[<c03cb1702>] do_initcalls +0x49/0x8e
[<c010051b>] init +0xc1/0x1f3
[<c010045a>] init +0x0/0x1f3
[<c01041d5>] kernel_thread_helper +0x5/0xb

Code: 81 fe 00 ff 75 05 8a c1 ee eb 11 66 81 fe 01 fe 70 07 66 8b c1
66 ef eb 03 8b c1 ef 66 9d 66 5a 58 f8 c3 c3 c3 66 50 66 53 b7 00 <2e>
8a 83 96 04 00 00 66 5b 8a d8 66 58 c3 00 01 02 03 04 05 06

<0> Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!