From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: While the 7.2 (basic workstation) install to an IBM TravelStar (DARA-212000) 12G IDE disk drive seems to be successful, subsequent boots die with a Kernel Panic error message. The same 6.2 (basic workstation) install results in a pefectly fine boot! With 7.2, selection of Grub or Lilo seemed to make no difference. It would seem that the boot loader got confused as to the physical characteristics of the drive?? If it helps, the TravelStar drive was mounted to a Teknor cPCI-MXS64 (6U) compact PCI 64 Bit processor. After 6.2 installed and booted, a 7.2 upgrade install was attempted. The upgrade GUI blocked further continuation saying that no Linux partitions were found. How can 6.2 recognize the Linux partitions (/, /boot, and swap), but 7.2 be blind to them!?? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install 7.2 (with all defaults) on said processor/drive 2. Boot 3. Observe Kernel Panic death Actual Results: Kernel Panic, unsuccessful boot Expected Results: 7.2 should have booted (just as nicely as 6.2) Additional info: Drive general info: http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/travel/tr12gn.htm Drive physical characteristics at: http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/dara12gn/dara12jum.htm Processor info at: http://www.kontron.com/products/pdproductdetail.cfm?keyProduct=30708
Not boot loader related; please attach more details involving the text of the kernel panic you received.
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