From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461) Description of problem: The boot disk kernel panics after selecting "Upgrade Existing Installation" when trying to install from ISO images on /dev/sda6. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from boot floppy - select linux dd 2. Load SCSI driver module from driver disk 3. Select "Install from HD" 4. Choose /dev/sda6 as device and enter directory for ISO images 5. Select install type "Upgrade Existing System" 6. Immediate kernel panic Actual Results: (retyped, so please excuse any typos) EFLAGS: 00010006 EIP is at (2.4.18-3BOOT) elements | <Space selects> | <F12 next screen> eax: 00000000 ebx: c1f2c0fc ecx: c02908d8 edx: 000aff0c esi: c10726d0 edi: 00000000 ebp: c1f2c084 esp: c0265f04 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process swapper (pid: 0, stackpage=c0265000) Stack: c0265f37 c1f2c084 00000081 c282a4de c1f2c084 c1f2c084 c1f2c0fc 00000080 c1f2c084 c1f2c0fc c0265f37 00000282 9117e33c c10749e0 04000001 0000000a c0265f8c c10748e0 04000001 0000000a c0265f9c c0109839 0000000a c1f2c084 Call Trace: [<c282a4de>] [<c0109839>] [<c0109988>] [<c0105000>] [<c010bea8>] [<c0106b74>] [<c0105000>] [<c0106b97>] [<c0106bd6>] Code: 80 60 27 fe 85 f6 0f 84 9f 00 00 00 80 4e 27 02 e9 96 00 00 <0> Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! In interrupt handler - not syncing Expected Results: No panic. Additional info: HP Vectra SMP machine, currently running 7.1. Runs stock 7.1 kernel fine. Currently using custom built 2.4.19 kernel. memtest86 does not find any problems. Not overclocked. 32M memory. Marked severity as HIGH since this problem prevents install on this machine (no CD- ROM).
you didn't say what driver you just loaded....
Loaded the "tmscsim" driver off the driver disk - this is also the same driver the machine normally uses. I also tried a network install, via FTP, and the kernel panics at the same place.
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