From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98) Description of problem: Using the patch boot.img disk to solve the known issue with the controler. I type linux apic. The system loads its startup files then the screen goes blank and locks. only way to get it to respond is do a cold boot. System is an Intel ISP2150 no addin cards. 1 processor 6-mhz p3. terminator in 2nd slot. 64 mb ram 2 segate sca scsi drives and a ide cd- rom drive. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot from patch disk 2.type linux apic 3. Actual Results: system hang with no video Expected Results: continuance of install Additional info: I was getting kernal panic:tryed to kill init! before. Did a couple changes in the bios(install os :changed to pnp, pci2031 bridge option now enabled, pci irq's to IO-APIC Mapping now disabled) this got me out of the kernel panic situation but thats about it. I've seen lots of other post about the l440gx+ boards here but none with the specific problem with the video.
Does the anaconda installer even start or does it hang during the kernel boot?
it hangs on the kernel boot. What I think is occuring is that the kernel is finishing loading ok(not sure because I'm new to this. but when it tries to go to anaconda I lose video(although I lose video before it has a chance to say "starting anaconda"
Since it seems that the kernel isn't even fully booting, I'm going to change the component to the kernel.
"changed to pnp" -> please change that back also can you try "apic ide=nodma" as options ?
ok now I'm getting the kernel panic again. I can't post a screen shot but I will type it out. top part scrolls off screen but here is whats left. hopefully this will shead some light Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon swansea university computer society NET3.039 starting kswapd v1.8 vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf6000000, mapped to 0xc4800000, size 2048k vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=1 vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:3017 vesafb: scrolling: redraw vesafb: direct color: size 0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0 console: switching to color frame buffer device 100x37 fb0: VESA VGA fram buffer device unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 printing eip: c024ee58 pgd entry c0101000: 0000000000000000 pmd entry c0101000: 0000000000000000 ...pmd not present! Oops: 0002 CPU: 0 eip: 0010: [<c024ee58>] eflags: 00010246 eax: 00000000 ebx: c0287040 ecx: 00000206 edx: c3fed638 esi: c0286ebc edi: 00000000 ebp: c0286e00 esp: c113ff88 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 process swapper (pid:1, stackpage=c113f000) stack: c02870fc c024eb6b c024d1c9 c02509f8 00000001 c0105000 0006e000 c024d226 00000000 00000001 c0105000 c024b36c c024b6d5 c024b399 c024285a 00000001 c02428d0 00000000 00010f00 c0241fc4 c01070d5 00010f00 c0241fc4 call trace:[<c0105000>] [<c0105000>] [<c01070d5>] [<c0105000>] [<c01074fe>] [<c01070cc>] code: f3 ab a1 2c 05 29 c0 c7 40 04 00 00 00 00 c7 00 00 00 00 kernel panic:attempted to kill init!
Located the problem. Bad stick of ram. thanks for the help :)