Bug 58300
| Summary: | RH7.2, Kernel Panic during installation from CD1 after boot promt | ||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Raymond Horn <raymond.horn> | ||||
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 7.2 | ||||||
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2002-01-13 21:00:56 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Created attachment 42354 [details]
full error message plus report of test done
I have just tried the 'mem=' boot parameter as stated in #49452. Opposed to what was reported at #49452 using 'mem=64m' (the exakt memory size) it worked on my computer! Thus, the installation program seems to have a problem to figure out the exact memory size. Stating the correct memory size at the boot prompt get around that bug. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.74 [de] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16 i586) Description of problem: I want to run an old computer as a gateway/firewall. I currently runs with Suse 7.0 and I want to switch that to RedHat. Not even booting from CD1 would work: the system stops with a blank screen shortly after the lilo boot prompt. When selecting the 'text' or 'nofb' option the system still stops but it creates visible text output. The last line says: <0> kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! I have contacted the Red Hat support with that problem and they ask me to post the error on bugzilla too. It is probably a problem of the installer anaconda. I have an old version 6.0 from a red hat book that works fine. What can I do to install the version 7.2? The computer has the following hardware configuration: - CPU: AMD-K6 300MHz - RAM: 64 MByte - chip set: Acer Labs M1541 Aladdin V (rev 4) Acer Labs M5243 AGP (rev 4) Acer Labs M1533 Aladdin IV (rev 195) - graphics: S3 Trio64V2/DX or /GX (PCI) - ethernet: Realtek 8139 (rev 16) DEC DC21140 (rev 34) - ISDN: AVM A1 (Fritz) (rev 2) I will post a test report (different boot options, removing hardware) with the full visible screen output as an attachment. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert CD1 or boot disk 2. select any option at boot prompt 3. after a few seconds the system stops (in text or nofb boot mode the kernel panic message can be seen. Actual Results: system does not react to any input and can just be reset. Expected Results: pop up of graphical installation front end Additional info: bug report #49452 seems to be similar, but ended Aug 3rd 01 with out solution