FC6-T2 (DVD) won't boot on Core 2 Duo setup

[Nathan Grennan]

Drew Bertola wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I've put together a new system with and am having no luck installing 
> FC5 or FC6-T2, both in text mode.
>
> On FC5, I needed a driver for something or other, can't remember what, 
> but it didn't look encouraging.  I did manage to get the language and 
> keyboard layout screens.  Anyway, I went on to try FC6-T2.
>
> On test-2, I get an immediate kernel panic.  It says:
>
> DWARF2 unwinder stuck at kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb
> Leftover inexact backtrace:
> ...
> Code: ...
> EIP: ...
> <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>
> (I can fill in the blanks if anybody would find it useful).
>
> This is all very repeatable.
>
> The system consists of:
> Asus P5B mobo
> Core2Duo 6400
> 2x1 GB OCZ DDR2 / 800 MHz
> nVidia 7300 GS (PCI Express)
> 400GB Seagate SATA/300 attached to Intel ICH8 (either IDE or AHCI 
> mode, doesn't matter)
>
> Any ideas?
 As far as I know it can't be worked around. I ran into the same problem 
with my new Core 2 Duo system. I opened 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201977 and it was 
closed as rawhide. kernel-2.6.17-1.2543.fc6 works for me. I am currently 
running FC5 on mine for working Nvidia binary drivers. Xorg 7.1 in FC6 
isn't properly compatible with the ATI or Nvidia binary drivers.

  I still have serious problems though. The onboard Jmircon JMB363 
sata/pata controller is disabled on boot. Hence I had to go out and get 
a sata optical drive. My dual onboard gigabit r8168 network cards don't 
work either. I found a set of patches for 2.6.18rc2, which is older than 
the latest development kernel,  
http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.18-rc2/r8169/  They 
don't seem to have been merged with the main tree. There is also a 
driver from Realtek, from what I have read, but it's quality is 
questionable.

Skipping disabled JMB363 IDE controller.

  My system is mostly unrecognized by lspci.

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 29a0 (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 29a1 (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2834 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2835 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 283a (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Unknown device 284b (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 283f (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2843 (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2847 (rev 02)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2849 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2830 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2831 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2832 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2836 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2810 (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2821 (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Unknown device 283e (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 
0391 (rev a1)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Unknown 
device 8168 (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Unknown 
device 8168 (rev 01)
05:00.0 RAID bus controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 
20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02)
06:02.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A 
IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
06:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
06:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
06:06.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game port 
(rev 04)
06:06.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04)


My system:

Abit AB9 Pro
Core 2 Duo 6600
2x1gb OCZ DDR2 PC6400
nVidia 7600 GT
4x250gb Seagate 7200.8
Plextor PX-755SA dvd burner