When I attempt to install from CD, I get the messages running install... running /sbin/loader followed by one minute pause and then a kernel panic: Call trace cdrom_start_read_continuation cdrom_start_packet_command ide_do_rw_cdrom start_request ide_do_request ide_timer_expiry ide_timer_expiry run_timer_softirq __so_soft_irq do_soft_irq =================== do_IRQ common_interrupt Kernel panic: Fatal exception in interrupt In interrupt handler - not syncing BIOS detects the CD, and the initial installation commences from the CD. It does not then succeed in reading anything further from the CD. The light on the CD drive flashes briefly once, and after the long pause the machine dies. How reproducible: I have successfully installed RedHat 5 on the machine from CD. I am able to mount a CD under the old RedHat system. When I tried to install Mandrake from CD, I had similar problems to Fedora. Additional info: The hardware is a Gateway Pentium 2, 350 Mhz, with 160 Mb RAM. The CD drive is FX322M-(SM)
Created attachment 104016 [details] Experiencing the same problem with a Gateway Pentium II 233 MHz I have tried various options when installing Fedora Core 2, not sure what Test. However, downloaded Fedora Core 2 (kernel 2.9.0) Test1 and experience the same Kernel Panic interrupt. Could it be a disk space problem since the /sbin/loader is trying to load the kernel and fails? My pc is setup with a Master/Slave disk configuration and the master is less than 1G while the slave is 3G. Plan on switching the configuration making the master the 3G drive.
I have made progress with the problem. It seems to be a hardware incompatibility between the CD-ROM drive and Linux. I have no trouble installing from CD if I use a different drive. [The problem was not specific to Fedora; I could not install Mandrake either with the old drive, but can install MS Windows 98.] I have had other troubles with this hardware and Linux. The network card is detected fine by ifconfig and netstat, but I am unable to get any traffic through it with Linux. Given two hardware incompatibilities with Linux, I have decided to abandon this old Gateway machine.
Sounds like bugs 115458 125348 and 129832
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