Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 150071
kernel doesn't load with Virtual PC 7
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:16 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: I want to install RHEL 4 on my Mac running OS-X 10.3 under Microsoft Virtual PC 7. After mounting the CD image and turn on the virtual machine, I get the linux loader prompt. I select 'linux text' and see the kernel being loaded from the CD. After getting 'Ok, booting the kernel.', Virtual PC stops the virtual machine with the error: An unrecoverage processor error has been encountered. This seems to be related to bug 136018. Seems like many virtual machines don't like the 4G/4G kernel patch. If that is indeed the case, I don't understand why it's the default. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Mount CD image 2. Start virtual machine 3. select any boot option Actual Results: Virtual machine crashes Expected Results: proceed with installation process Additional info:
The 4G/4G kernel is not the default in RHEL4, so are you sure that is the problem?
No, not 100% sure. I know I can boot using disk1 of RHEL 3AS update 2. I haven't tried any of the Fedora distributions, but the only problems I could find with google related to Fedora Core & RHEL4 were somehow related to the bug I'm referencing. I'd really like to get RHEL4 going with Virtual PC, I'm ready to try different things but I just don't know where to start.
there's really not much we can work with here. The only thing I can suggest is trying to disable various features (like execshield=0 etc)
I'll do more experimenting and try to bring more data. Is there a list somewhere of the features that can be disabled on the loader command line ? I tried execshield=0 but it didn't help.
actually, that should have been exec-shield=0
As virtualpc isn't something we list as a supported configuration, this isn't going to get fixed anytime soon.