Bug 707338 - Kernel panic during boot of Fedora 15 under VMware
Summary: Kernel panic during boot of Fedora 15 under VMware
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 15
Hardware: i386
OS: Mac OS
unspecified
high
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-05-24 17:50 UTC by Ewin Barnett
Modified: 2011-05-24 18:16 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-05-24 18:16:33 UTC
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Fedora 15 i686 Live boot panic under VMware 6.5.5 (Windoze Vista) (50.37 KB, image/jpeg)
2011-05-24 17:50 UTC, Ewin Barnett 		no flags Details
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Description Ewin Barnett 2011-05-24 17:50:24 UTC 
Created attachment 500668 [details]
Fedora 15 i686 Live boot panic under VMware 6.5.5 (Windoze Vista)

The hardware environment is VMware Workstation 6.5.5 build 328052 with 512 mb of memory running in Windows Vista Home Premium (4gb) with all updates current.   10gb of disk is allocated and the virtual disk is the default SCSI (0:0) created by VMware.


Booting of Fedora-15-i686-Live-Desktop.iso has kernel panic early in boot sequence.

Screenshot attached.

Fails every time.
Comment 1 Ewin Barnett 2011-05-24 18:05:42 UTC 
When a new virtual machine is created with the VMware IDE disk, this .iso boots normally, but the first screen has a message stating that GNOME 3 has failed to load and it has started in fallback mode.  I have do not know if this is a related error or not.
Comment 2 Dave Jones 2011-05-24 18:16:33 UTC 
512mb isn't enough for f15's install. The install ramdisk will need at least 768mb.

After installation, the memory needed is lower.
Work is ongoing in f16 to reduce this requirement.
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