From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050328 Fedora/1.7.6-1.2.5 Description of problem: Basically, I boot up from the dvd and get the boot> If I press enter to enter the graphical setup, I immediatly get a Kernel Panic. If I try to do a media check, using "linux mediacheck", I immediatly get a Kernel Panic. I haven't tried to start the installer in text-mode, but I really don't expect it to work. Tried using acpi=ht, still the same result. (I'm using a P4) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): FC4-dvd How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot up from dvd 2.press enter at the boot> promt Actual Results: This is what I see: [<c01002b8>] init+0x18/0xf0 [<c01012b1>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x14 Code: c8 fc ff 8b 45 4c 3d 3c 4b 24 1d 74 90 e8 8e ca fc ff 8d 55 4c 50 52 68 6a 01 00 00 68 88 c0 37 c0 68 28 4b 37 c0 e8 c5 c8 fc ff <0f> 0b 1e 01 88 c0 37 c0 e9 7b fe ff ff 8b 54 24 3c 8b 44 24 08 <0>Kernel Panic - not syncing: attempted to kill init! [<c01201eb>] panic+0x3b/0x1b0 [<c0124162>] do_exit+0x482/0x4d0 [<c0104601>] die+0x201/0x270 [<c01048a0>] do_invalid_op+0x0/0xa0 [<c0104931>] do_invalid_op+0x91/0xa0 [<c01538eb>] free_pages_bulk+2db/0x350 [<c025c7d2>] set_cursor+0x52/0x70 [<c025f312>] vt_console_print+0x162/0x290 [<c025f160>] vt_console_print+0x0/0x290 [<c0120c37>] __call_console_drivers+0x37/0x50 [<c0123d37>] call_console_drivers+0x87/0x150 [<c0103caf>] error_code+0x4f/0x60 [<c01538eb>] free_pages_bulk+2db/0x350 [<c015406b>] free_hot_cold_page+0x7b/0xd0 [<c0118306>] free_initrd_mem+0x56/0x70 [<c01002a0>] init+0x0/0xf0 [<c01002b8>] init+0x18/0xf0 [<c01013b1>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x14 It just stops there. If there was anything before that, I couldn't see it, and shift+pgup didn't work. Expected Results: To enter the graphical install enviroment. Additional info: the system is an HP pavilion 1080.se Motherboard is listed as "MS-6577", though I think it's a remaned asus. I'm currently running FC 2
Ah, right, forgot to mention, The media is sound. sha1 checks out, as does the md5-sums for allt the images on the disc. checked all files in /images /images/pxeboot and /isolinux
Same problem here, but only on machines with Intel 915 chipset (and SATA disks if that is of relevance). The first error message I was able to see complained about "Unable to mount root disk"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 159026 ***