From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: I have installed RH 8.0 on a recently purchased Hewlett Packard Pavilion notebook, model ze4115, and now it won't complete the boot process. It stops booting and shows a "kernel panic: Unable to continue" message. The last few lines read: isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 0000000000000007 Bank 3: b40000000000083b at 00000001fc0003b3 Kernel: Unable to continue I had to type "linux nopcmcia" at the boot: prompt in order to run the installation disks, but I don't know if there is a way to do that to boot the system that is now installed. I was having a different type of kernel panic error when it tried to start up the installation process. I have had problems installing other linux versions as well and I am starting to think that there is a problem with the notebook's hardware. From what I understand, my notebook comes equipped with an AMD Athlon XP processor, with an ATI U1/ALI 1535+ chipset. I think it also has an integrated graphics processor, an ATI Radeon IGP 320m. Is there anything I need to do to get linux to run properly on this computer or is there a compatibility issue? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install RH 8.0 using linux nopcmcia at boot prompt 2.restart/or simply try to boot notebook into linux 3. Actual Results: After the grub or lilo (i've tried both) screen, it attempts to boot but quits after only a few seconds. I get this output on the screen: Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line) Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: AMD mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1500+ stepping 00 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch.au) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd87d, last bus=2 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Using IRQ router ALI [10b9/1533] at 00:07.0 isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 0000000000000007 Bank 3: b40000000000083b at 00000001fc0003b3 Kernel: Unable to continue After the screen output stops at this point, it does not respond to anything but powering down by pressing the power button. Expected Results: a successful linux boot. Additional info: Like I mentioned earlier, when I used the installation disks, the "linux nopcmcia" option at the boot prompt worked OK for me. I had to do this because without it, I was getting a different type of kernel panic error when I was trying to install. However, this does not work on the kernel that was installed on to the hard disk in order to get it to boot properly.
Linux doesn't currently support the ATI Radeon IGP chipset, and in addition the chipset does some very weird and un-PC like things which trip up the current kernel. You may be able to install using the options "nopcmcia" "isapnp=off" "ide=nodma" Alan
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 72387 ***