Bug 177290 - Kernel crashed in VmWare workstation 5.5 after first boot
Summary: Kernel crashed in VmWare workstation 5.5 after first boot
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 5
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Dave Jones
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-01-09 04:09 UTC by Jon Stanley
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:24 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-01-09 18:36:51 UTC
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Description Jon Stanley 2006-01-09 04:09:09 UTC
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Description of problem:
When I installed fc5test1 onto VMWare Workstation 5.5, the VM crashes while attempting to load the kernel.  I took 'rhgb quiet' out of the GRUB bootoptions, and it fails when "protecting kernel read-only data".  That is the last output from the console, and then VMWare tells me that the VM had a "virtual machine kernel stack fault (hardware reset)".  I also attempted using 'noapic', and that didn't work either.

Note that the install went fine, the VM will simply not boot after that.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install fc5test1 on VMWare Workstation 5.5


Actual Results:  The system will not boot after install

Expected Results:  The system should boot.

Additional info:

Note that I have not attempted this on another host (I don't have one immediately available).  The host is running WinXP SP2, and it's a P4 3.06 (hyperthreading enabled).  The selection in VMWare for the OS appears to be irrelevant (I've attempted RHEL4 and 'Other Linux 2.6 kernel').

Comment 1 Dave Jones 2006-01-09 18:36:51 UTC
there was a bug in test1 (and was documented in the release notes).

boot with 'mem=nopentium' and it should get past it.
The latest rawhide kernels have this fixed.


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