From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: Not much information to give (sorry.) When trying to install FC3 on older hardware (old pentium 2's) everything starts up ok, but once it prints out that it is starting /sbin/loader, the computer freezes, and after a number of seconds (5-10) I get a kernel panic. this has been reproduced on 2 VERY different boxes hardware-wise, but they were both pentium 2 old. If there is any other information I could give, please tell me. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Try to install Fedora Core 3 normally, either in text only, nofb, and/or noprobe mode. Additional info:
I would like to add that using the kernel option ide=nodma seemed to have fixed this,
The same thing is happening to me, but on brand new x86_64 hardware (dual Opteron CPUs on an Iwill motherboard using a 3ware RAID). /sbin/loader starts, after about 20 or 30 seconds I see a 'loading aic7xxx driver' message, then after another 20 or 30 seconds I get a kernel panic that says something about waiting on a traversal list.
I also tried Daniel's 'ide=nodma' trick, but it did not work for me. I still get a Kernel panic - not syncing: Waiting List traversal message while the aic7xxx driver is trying to load during the initial part of the installation.
Your problem is a different problem. Mine is because of a ide configuration in FC. Yours is because of the aic7xxx driver problems. Anyway, try setting the boot option to: aic7xxx=no_reset or aic7xxx=no_probe (try one and if that dosn't work then try the second)
Thanks for the suggestions, Daniel. Unfortunately, neither 'aic7xxx=no_reset' nor 'aic7xxx=no_probe' made any difference. I am still dead in the water here. Too bad there isn't any 'aic7xxx=nokernelpanic'. :-)
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