Bug 427073

Something in the kernel or the way Fedora8 reads the /etc/fstab causes it to
automatically kernel panic after installation. 

I have run Fedora going back to Red Hat 6.0 and never had kernel panics after a
successful installation. I have tried several work a rounds and they all fail.
What changed in the kernel or the way it is handled by the /etc/fstab for this
to occur. I have been only to install it on one older Dell Precision 340
workstation with success. Fedora is my favorite distro and I wonder if Fedora9
will be the same uninstallable as with Fedora8?

If you have any questions please contact me at grifs71.

Thanks,
Scott Griffin

Another additional note I did notice that everything in /etc/fstab was in this
format:

LABEL=/boot and LABEL=/var ect because I create separate partitions for my file
system. Even using the default that creates a 100 meg /boot and logical volume
for the rest of the drive it still fails?

I have researched this error, and the only work a rounds found require the
kernel to be recompiled. I am trying to understand what changed in the Fedora7
kernel to Fedora8 to make it handle this differently. So far on 3 different
machines that ran Fedora7 without any errors or hardware changes Fedora8 will
not install and fails with this kernel panic.

(In reply to comment #3)
> I have researched this error, and the only work a rounds found require the
> kernel to be recompiled.

What workarounds are they?

> I am trying to understand what changed in the Fedora7
> kernel to Fedora8 to make it handle this differently. So far on 3 different
> machines that ran Fedora7 without any errors or hardware changes Fedora8 will
> not install and fails with this kernel panic.
> 

Fedora 7 2.6.23 kernel and Fedora 8 2.6.23 kernel are nearly identical.

> 

From what I have read it is a grub error and it was a Gentoo distro and the end
user recompiled the kernel.

I have tried to load it on the same machines that ran Fedora7 with no changes to
hardware or anything and it kernel panics after the fresh install (upon reboot).

I really want to run Fedora8 but I am not sure how to get it to pass the kernel
the parameters from grub to boot to even get to a operating machine. I know I
can boot off a disk (linux rescue), however all of the attempts in grub failed.
Other than a kernel recompile, (not sure how to perform) I will be stuck with
Fedora7. On my work machine I am running RHEL5.1 Server (work paid for), however
I need my home machines running Linux because I am a Linux Admin. 

If you search on google.com for that error it list what some users did as work a
rounds. I just do not see having to recompile the kernel to install the
operating system. Any help would be greatly appreciated, the only success I had
loading Fedora8 was on a Dell Precision 340 (older workstation) that was turned
over when another user got a new machine. 

Thanks for the reply,
Scott Griffin
:) 

Also, my hard-drive is the same one I was running Fedora7 on, it is a PATA
Seagate that had no issues with any other Fedora distro or RHEL release.

Something in the way it uses Labels or grub is reading it, I am performing a
fresh install wiping out any existing partitions. I have tried this several
times and I want to really get this loaded and running.

Do any of the workarounds make a difference?

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelCommonProblems

But the installer would have needed the same workaround just to get a successful
install...

How do I correct the boot parameter?

I can experiment with this setup, I believe I tried a few of them but had no
success.

After the successful install, when it reboots is when this kernel panic occurs
the loading kernel has not successful loaded a clean reboot.

What exactly changed in the way the kernel in F7 and F8, I will have to skip F8
if no resolution is available. Would this carry over into F9 release as well?

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