Created attachment 358372 [details] Photo of screen showing kernel panic Description of problem: When I try to boot the F 11 live CD on my system with a Jetway 625EMP800/625EMW800 motherboard with a VIA cpu, after a few seconds a kernel panic results. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Kernel on F 11 live Cd How reproducible: This happens every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot system, inserting live CD 2. In order to see information about the boot process, hit ESC and TAB and edit out 'quiet' in the boot line 3. Hit Enter and the boot proceeds to the crash. Actual results: Screen messages scroll up, ending with the lines (taken from my photo) IO APIC resources could not be allocated registered taskstats version 1 Magic number 5:676:694 Initializing network drop monitor service Freeing unused kernel memory: 424k freed Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 1448k Kernel Panic - not syncing: attempted to kill init! Expected results: The system should boot into Fedora 11 Linux, at at least 800x600 mode or preferably somewhat greater than 1024x768. Additional info: I don't have any text or binary crash data, but I'm attaching /proc/cpuinfo, output of lspci -v (from running Ubuntu), and screen photographs taken during the boot process as described above. This system normally runs Ubuntu 9.04 well. I have another system with a similar motherboard and CPU, which exhibits the same kernel panic.
Created attachment 358373 [details] /proc/cpuinfo from Ubuntu This shows the CPU type
Created attachment 358374 [details] lspci -v output from Ubuntu
Created attachment 358375 [details] /proc/meminfo from Ubuntu
Created attachment 358376 [details] Screen photo of BIOS boot screen A bit blurry, but shows the CPU type etc.
Created attachment 358378 [details] Boot line shown on screen Boot line as edited to make screen output verbose.
It turns out the VIA C3 CPU in this system is not i686-compatible. Since the live CD in question is targeted towards the i686, it's likely an unsupported instruction was executed. So unless Fedora supports more generic i386 CPUs, this problem is likely to be in the "won't fix" category.
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