[rhn-users] kernel panic during install of RHEL ES v 4

[Alfred Hovdestad]

Do you have a floppy drive in this system?  I don't know if it will help 
but you could try booting off of the floppy drive.    ;-)

    Alfred



Brian Gray wrote:
> 
> I have a running RHEL ES v3 system that I want to upgrade to ES v4.  It 
> is a test/experiment system, so I plan to wipe it clean and start over 
> with v4.  I get a "kernel panic" error during the install process.
> 
> I downloaded the "Easy ISO" images and made CDs.  When I boot from disk 
> 1, I press <enter> when prompted, and a few seconds later the system 
> kernel panics.  The RedHat knowledgebase describes a similar problem 
> with v3 on some IBM hardware configurations, and suggests running the 
> install with the command: "linux mem=<some memory size>" to limit the 
> amount of RAM used during the install.
> 
> When I do that, I get the message: "Uncompressing Linux...OK, booting 
> kernel".  The computer then hangs at that point.  No further activity is 
> seen on the screen or CD drive.  Running the installation with the 
> "noprobe" option does not seem to change anything.
> 
> The CD boots correctly on another computer and passes the media check. 
>  The old v3 install disks work correctly on my target system.  
> 
> There seems to be some interaction between the v4 installation disk and 
> that hardware configuration.  The hardware is an HP Pavillion P4-2.6GHz 
> with 1GB RAM.  The CD drive is a CD-RW IDE.
> 
> I can't find anything else in web searches.  What else can I try?
> 
> bkg
> 
> 
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