I have a problem while bootin installed system. Installin seems to go allright but when i boot up at first time system hangs and says: Kernel panic - attempted to kill the idle disk In swapper task - not syncing My hardware: AMD K7 Duron 600Mhz MSI K7T Pro mainboard 13Gt / Ide
I have the same mother board and CPU, and also the same problem. This is what it looks like (I may have typed something wrong when looking at the screen and typing it down): Memory: 127852 k/131008k available (1060 kernel code, 416k reserved, 1616 data, 64k init, 0k bigmem) Dentry hash table entries: 262144 (order 9, 2048) Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k) Page cach hash table entries : 32768 (order 5, 128k) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized L1 I Cache: 64K L1 D Cache: 64K L2 Cache: 1K CPU: AMD AMD Durnon(tm) Processor stepping 00 Enabling estended fast FTP save and restore...done. Disabling CPUID Serial number...general protection fault: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c023400f4>] EFLAGS: 00010282 eax: 00000020 ebx: 07c3d1d0 ecx: 00000119 edx: 00000001 esi: 00098800 edi: c0106000 ebp: 00001000 esp: c0233fc8 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process swapper (pid: 0, process nr: 0, stackpage=c0233000) Stack: c0106000 c02344e2 c02143a0 c01d7d0b c02143a0 c0234c7b 07c3bd1d0 07c3d1d0 07c3d1d0 c03b2e30 c7ff0000 00000000 c0214460 c0100175 Call Trace: [<c0106000>] [<c01d7d0b>] [<c0100175>] Code: 0f 32 0d 00 00 20 00 0f 30 68 21 78 1d c0 e8 27 fd ed ff 83 Kernel panic: Attempted to kill dhe idle task! In swapper task - not syncing I may mention that Storm linux can be installed without problems on the same system. More of my HW configuration: Motherboard: MSI Socket A VIAKT133 ATX K7T-PRO Duron CPU: AMD Socket A Duron 3DNOW! 600MHz RAM: 128MB PC133 168-Pin Videocard: ATI AGP 3D Changer 8MB RageIIC Harddisc: Western Digital ATA-66 15300MB AWD153BA Hallvard Paulsen, Bxmlo, Norway
I think I have a workaround: 1. Boot form CD-ROM and, Install as usual (if you want to use multiple partitions, you may temporarialy just use a / partition large enough to hold a minimal system, many paritions make this workaround more difficult) 2. Boot CD-ROM again in rescue mode (lilo: linux rescue) 3. Make a temporary mount point for your intallation, root partion (bash# mkdir /mnt/root). And mount it (bash# mount /dev/hda5 (in my case) /mnt/root 4. copy the kernel-source rpm to somewhere on the harddisk (bash# cp /mnt/source/RedHat/RPMS/kernel-source*rpm /mnt/root/home 5. Change root (/) to your harddisk (bash# chroot /mnt/root) 6. Install kernel source rpm (bash# rpm -i /home/kernel-source*rpm) 7. Change to /usr/src/linux and compile according to the instructions in the file README 8. (I had to do a secound reboot in order to copy the zImage over to my boot partition /dev/hda1 because it could not be directely mounted after I compiled) 9 run lilo and so on... 10. Now, if I could just get the built in sound card to work... Hallvard Paulsen
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