Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 176800
Kernel panics when anaconda is search for mouse
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:24:04 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/416.12 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/416.13 Description of problem: Per bug 176624, I was attempting to upgrade my FC3 x86_64 install to FC4. However, after booting off the CD (either "linux" or "linux text"), selecting "skip" for CD testing, anaconda would run with: Running anaconda... Probing video... Probing monitor... <kernel panic -- I'll attach shortly> the kernel panic would happen no matter what options I tried, always refering to the serial port. After swearing a lot, I was about to give up looked through BIOS and found that there's a com2 which I had disabled because there is no physical com2 serial port on the machine. For kicks, I enabled it, and then anaconda had no problems and things progressed. Looking at the serial console output, it looks like when the serial port is disabled, the kernel is still able to see it with an IRQ of -1, and I'm assuming that the kernel dies when trying to access it since it doesn't actually exist. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. insert FC4 disc 2. boot off the CD Additional info:
Created attachment 122699 [details] serial console output showing kernel boot and panic Please let me know if you need any more information. Thanks.
moving to kernel component -- I put anaconda on originally since that's where the panic was happening, but since it's a panic it's the kernel ... sorry. ;)
ok, it sounds like you managed to get it installed at least. After installing the latest update kernel, does it crash at any stage in the same way ?
I haven't seen a crash since changing the BIOS option. I didn't change it back after the upgrade was completed, so I can't say whether or not it was related to the kernel used in the installer or if it's still in the later kernels.
ok, then I'll close this out.