FC5: "Unknown interrupt or fault at EIP 00010006..."

[Gordon Hay]

Yes, dual CPU.  Two mighty 200MHz Pentium Pro...

But no, I don't think the kernel on the CD works.
This failure occurs as soon as I press enter at the initial 
prompt after booting the CD.

I've tried "linux memmap=exactmap mem=640k at 0 mem=95m at 1m rpmarch=1586" at
that prompt, but it doesn't help.

What is the message actually telling me? 


On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 14:24 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 06:36:02PM +0100, Gordon Hay wrote:
>  > Trying to install FC5 from CD, first boot fails with message
>  > 
>  > "Unknown interrupt or fault at EIP 00010006 00000060 c03a1e80"
>  > and this message is endlessly repeated.
>  > 
>  > System is an old Compaq Proliant 2500, and FC4 runs fine.
> 
> dual CPU ?
> 
>  > Because of the Proliant's "memory hole", FC4 needs boot parameters
>  > "memmap=exactmap mem=640k at 0 mem=95m at 1m"
> 
> so the kernel on the install cd works, but the one it boots into is
> broken ?  doing the install with rpmarch=i586 as a boot option
> should work around that.  It does mean that you'll be stuck in
> single processor mode for now though. (unless you try the
> experimental 568-smp kernel I put on http://people.redhat.com/davej
> post-install)
> 
> The pentium pro should be more than capable of running the 686-smp
> kernel though (and in fact, I did an install on a 4-way proliant 5000
> a few days back, which went fine).
> 
> 		Dave
>