From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: 8 Jan 05 fc3 downloaded iso's md5sumchecked & burned to cd's. When booting from CD to upgrade rh9, using either graphic mode or text-only mode I get error message "kernel crash - fatal exception" before anything gets installed. Hardware: Compaq Proliant 800 dual processors - P2-200 256MB RAM Hard drive - Compaq WDE4360W 6GB Network devices - Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 model NC100 SCSI devices - LSI/Symbios Logic sym 53c8xx Sound card - Ensoniq es1370 System devices - Integrated Netflex - 3/P Video Card - ATI Mach 64 3D Rage 2 I was unable to install fc2 on this machine either; I had hoped fc3 was different. Currently running rh9. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Insert CD 2.Power up machine 3.Choose graphical or text-only mode (doesn't matter) 4.Watch all the lines of text scroll down the screen until the "kernel crash - fatal exception" message appears. Actual Results: Nothing Expected Results: Install should have commenced. Additional info: I can't print from this machine, but from the bug reports it seems that there may be an open bug similar to this on the i386 section (#115458). Maybe the same??? I'm a newbie (can't even get the printer to work with linux). If you need the screen output above the error, I'll have to copy it by hand during an install attempt. Thank you, Glenn
Corrections: 1) BIOS displays 131072 KB detected. 2) Steps to reproduce - after choosing graphical or text mode, install begins loading SCSI driver 53c8xx then the screen turns blue for a long period. Text above kernel panic: esi: c041924c edi: c04191a0 ebp: c027643c esp: c03ddf18 ds: 007b es:007b ss: 0068 Process swapper (pid: 0, thread info=c03dd000 task=c0354bc0)2> next screen Stack: 00000202 a041924c c041924c 00000000 00000000 c027643c c0275eba 0000ea68 c0275d62 00000000 00000000 c041924c 00000040 00000000 c02773d5 c7fef600 c7e234ac c7e234ac c041924c 00000040 00000000 c026a04b 00000040 00000000 Call Trace: [<c027643c>] cdrom_start_read_continuation+0x0/0xb0 [<c0275eba>] cdrom_start_packet_command+0x10c/0x130 [<c0275d62>] cdrom_timer_expiry+0x0/0x4c [<c02773d5>] ide_do_rw_cdrom+0xdf/0x14b [<c026a04b>] start_request+0x19f/0x1c0 [<c026a366>] ide_do_request+0x2df/0x3a0 [<c026a851>] ide_timer_expiry+0x35d/0x3da [<c026a4f4>] ide_timer_expiry+0x0/0x3da [<c012a9f2>] run_timer_softirq+0x21f/0x321 [<c012680d>] _do_softirq+0x46/0x4d ======================== [<c0108973>] do_IRQ+0x2fd/0x309 [<c030c138>] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20 [<c0104018>] default_idle+0x0/0x26 [<c010403b>] default_idle+0x23/0x26 [<c010403b>] cpu_idle+0x1d/0x32 [<c03b16a6>] start kernel+0x216/0x219 Code: e8 b6 57 eb ff 83 c4 1c c7 05 ac 63 37 c0 01 00 00 00 c7 05 b8 63 37 c0 1d 33 c0 c7 05 bc 63 37 c0 e8 00 00 83 3b 00 74 08 <0f> 0b eb 03 89 1d 33 89 2b 8b 44 24 20 89 83 fc 00 00 00 a1 <0>Kernel panic - not synching: Fatal exception in interrupt
if you boot with a vga=1 option, can you capture the top of this message ? A few lines scrolled off the top.
As stated above, I'm an absolute newbie to Linux. That said, I don't know how to boot with vga=1 option. What I was doing was a cold boot from FC3 Disk 1 with an installed OS of RH9 with no updates applied (because I hadn't figured out how to update from Fedora Legacy; I thought it was for Fedora only). I have now found a script that enables me to point up2date at Fedora Legacy updates, and have applied the updates. That has changed the Stack call somewhat, but the blue screen still freezes in the same place with no way to read above the top of the screen that I know of. Also, after reading the release notes (I know, should have done that first *sigh*) it appears that FC3 in graphics mode will require more memory (>128MB) than is installed on this machine (128MB). I was wrong about the machine having 256MB RAM installed. I guess that means for a newbie like me, I'll need to figure out what kind of memory this box needs and find it. Hope it doesn't cost more than the box did! As a side note, if you know where I can find a primer on how to print from my linux machine over my LAN to my network-only printer using CUPPs, I will be very grateful. I bought the printer brand-new 3 months ago and still can't get it to print in Linux, just Windoze. I can see its web page in Mozilla, but I haven't been able to print a test page other than over the browsers link from the web page. BTW, I do mean primer - like telling an average 10 year-old how-to over the telephone. Thank you.
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.
This bug has been automatically closed as part of a mass update. It had been in NEEDINFO state since July 2005. If this bug still exists in current errata kernels, please reopen this bug. There are a large number of inactive bugs in the database, and this is the only way to purge them. Thank you.