There is a widely experienced problem with the CDRom driver in Fedora Core 2 and certain models of CDRom. You can search Bugzilla for that problem and determine whether the actual error messages accompanying your panic are the same as those of the bug. Unfortunately, no one has found a solution last time I looked except to replace the CDRom drive with a newer model. The problem was present up to Fedora Core 3 test 1. I have not tested Fedora Core 3 test 2 as of yet on one of the problem machines. Note that Fedora Core 1 will install successfully on the problem machines here.
Ted Kaczmarek wrote:
On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 11:22, David.Grudek@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I am trying to boot up with the install cd and as soon as hit enter at the prompt to start the install it says kernel panic. It also says stuff above that about acpi and drivers. I know it is not the cd because it boots up fine in another machine. The board is a giga-byte server board GA-8egxr-el. It says on the giga-byte web site that it is supported by redhat 8 so I would assume that FC2 would handle it. I ran the memtest and it passed fine. It has 1G DDR ram. I also have a 2.66Ghz xeon processor. I have tried all these different modes. Text, expert, mem=1024M, and noprobe. I do not know what else to do. Any help would be appreciated.
Try removing any hardware that you don't need for install, you may get lucky. Otherwise check the kernel archives for issues with your mobo.
Ted
