FC4 installation question

[Rahul Sundaram]

Gerhard Magnus wrote:

>Greetings!
>
>	I'm trying to install FC4 on a new box I'll be dual booting with
>Windows XP.  I have already used the installation CDs to successfully
>install FC4 on my older computer.
>	The new box is a Pentium 4 with a DVD drive.  I have used this drive in
>working with the Windows XP that is already installed on the machine and
>it seems to handle CDs without problems.  
>	Soon after booting with the first FC4 CD and choosing a graphical
>installation I get the error message: "Kernel panic -- not syncing:
>attempted to kill init!"  (Linux is anything if not dramatic.)  The
>system hangs and I have to power it down to do a restart.  I've tried
>entering "linux noprobe", "linux skipddc" and "linux text" at that first
>prompt but they all give the same result.
>	I'm not sure where to go from here.  Any suggestions would be much
>appreciated.
>
>Jerry
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http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Caveats_and_Known_Bugs_on_FC4

Synopsis:

If the installation process crashes with a kernel oops or crash then
you are likely running into a bug with sysinstall which potentially
affects the Southbridge chipsets: 865, 875, 915, 925, 945, 955

Workaround: 

In the installation boot prompt type in some garbage. The
boot process will fail with an error message. Press enter twice to start
the installation process again.

Bugzilla Bug 159026 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159026> (/https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159026/) – machine oopses on booting from CD

regards
Rahul