From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1 Description of problem: Fedora Core 3 test 1 installs fine off CD-ROM; after reboot the kernel immediately panics with a Kernel Oops. Install CD kernel ran fine. Machine is a Viglen Genie Pentium-4 machine based on the intel i865G chipset (intel D865GLC motherboard, Pentium-4 2.8E GHz (800MHz FSB), 512MB DDR400 RAM). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.7-1.478smp How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora Core 3 test 1 2. Boot from HD 3. Actual Results: Kernel oops at very early stage of boot. Machine never usable. Expected Results: Kernel boots... Additional info: The following is the output (written down by hand, but checked carefully against printout before clearing): init /boot/init-2.6.7-1.478smp.img [Linux-initrd @ 0x1eef1000, 0x2e654 bytes] Uncompressing Linux.... OK, booting the kernel ACPI: S3 and PAE do not like each other for now, S3 disabled Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000008 printing eip: *pde = 00003001 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 1 EIP: 0060:[<00000008>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010202 (2.6.7-1.478smp) EIP is at 0x8 eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000 esi: 000003e8 edi: 021c4e55 edp: 021cdfd4 esp: 20ebaf9c ds: 0060 es: 0287 ss: 0068 Process swapper: (pid: 1, threadinfo=20eba000 task=20e8b730) Stack: 00000001 021d8c0c 00000000 00000000 00000000 021d1dfb 00000000 021e27ee 023ae028 0239b64e 000000f4 02436c40 0239b72b 023897ea 023ff1ec 00000000 021004dd 00000000 00000000 02100419 00000000 021041f1 00000000 00000000 Call Trace: [<021d8c0c>]<1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
I've just seen an identical fault (same EIP etc) on an Intel i875PBZ based motherboard. Really not having much luck with these intel chipsets and Fedora Core 3 test 1. I'm currently trying the 2.6.8-520 kernel on that machine....
Added Kernel 2.6.8-520 to the kickstart install and once rekicked it now boots correctly and normally on the i875PBZ machine; however the system remains unusable due to bug #130004 (NFS client Oops).
please close this bug
An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you.
As mentioned in comment #2, the 2.6.8-520 kernel fixed this bug. The machines concerned are currently operational with production FC3 with no problems.