Yet another FC install: kernel panic after boot from DVD

[Dotan Cohen]

On 11/03/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 16:46 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > This is the third machine I'm installing FC6 on this month :) The
> > first two went smoothly, but this one (P4 1.5 gHz, 256 MB RDRAM) is
> > giving me kernel panic after booting from the install disk. I've
> > snapped two pics of the screen here:
> > http://dotancohen.com/kernelPanic1.jpg
> > http://dotancohen.com/kernelPanic2.jpg
> > Note: the pics are 1.8 MB each! I'm in no position to make them
> > smaller at the moment- technical BS.
> >
> > The machine has got a CD ROM drive and I salvaged the DVD drive from
> > another known-good machine. I have three disks here: SLAX CD, Kubuntu
> > CD, and FC6 DVD. All three disks give kernel panic when booted from
> > the DVD drive. From the CD drive, FC6 and Kubuntu panic, but SLAX
> > lights right up and runs fine. Note that onle one drive is attached at
> > a time: I've only got a one-headed IDE cable at the moment.
> >
> > Memtest86+ runs all night on the machine and turns up fine. The post
> > test beeps like it should, no morse code. What could I check?
> >
> > Dotan Cohen
> I assume there is no panic when you boot these disks on another machine.
> Yes?

Right. I should have mentioned that the FC6 DVD had installed on 2
machines already and the Kubuntu on maybe 3 or 4. SLAX sees some use.

Dotan Cohen

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