Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 144367
FC3 Install Kernel Panics on Dell Precision 670n at ata_piix
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:14:52 EST
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: I've got a Dell 670n that I want to install fc3/64 on but I get a kernel panic when the installer loads the ata_piix kernel module. I can somewhat continue after the panic but installation hangs soon after. Unfortunately, there's too much garbage on the screen when the panic occurs for me to give a very much info on it. If you want, I can try to grab a digital photo of the install screen. I can boot the current x86_64 boot.img in the devel tree and that works fine but when I point it at the non-devel fc3/64 tree, it won't install that. If I use the standard fc3/64 boot disk with noprobe, I get no keyboard so I can't continue. I want to run fc3/64. What's the best way to get a newer kernel in an installer? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. try to install fc3/64 on this dell precision 670n 2. 3. Actual Results: kernel panic hang, install eventually locks up Additional info:
More background. When I tried using the standard FC3 x86_64 install disks, the sata controller would core dump and the installation would fail. (I knew it was just a kernel version problem since a rawhide boot disk would work but I didn't want to run rawhide.) When I used 'linux noprobe expert' I couldn't type because I had a usb keyboard and mouse. I then added ps/2 stuff and using 'expert noprobe' could then load the aic-79xx module but it wouldn't see my disk. After trying to make a suitable boot disk using the latest kernel and failing miserably, I ended up just installing a adaptec 2940uw to do the install and after upgrading the kernel, moved back to the 79xx which works perfectly. Moral: if your mass storage controllers are too new for the install media kernel, temporarily install older hardware...