Thanks for the tip, that got me in. I assume that this is documented somewhere, right? All I saw was a review guy who said he had problems with some LCD's, had to turn off frame buffers etc to get it to work, didn't work for me. Voodoo, who knew<G>? Very intuitive, think they might mention it in the install doc's... Cheers. Everything else now looks good, sound, video all picked up ED On 7/9/05, Amadeus W. M. <amadeus84@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 06:59:13 -0400, Ed Smits wrote: > > > Just got a new workstation for the house, tried to install Core 4 > > (from CD). As soon as it starts, I get the kernel loading dots, and > > then it immediately screws up and hangs. The messages are > > approximately: > > > > kernel_thread_helper > > a bunch of code > > <0>kernel panic - not syncing > > attempted to kill ini!! > > panic > > do_exit > > die > > do_invalid > > > > and on until the last line reads: > > kernel_thread_helper > > > > and it's hung. > > > > It is a new system, so I took the disks to another machine, started > > the install, checked all 4 disks, all OK, tried again, same thing. > > > > As a joke I had a DVD of Mandrake 10.1 Community from last fall, it > > installed perfectly, so I wondered what was up. By chance I discovered > > a forgotten DVD of Fedora Core 4 Test 1, it installed no problem, so I > > figured maybe I needed to try a new download - using Torrent I > > downladed the Core 4 DVD overnight, burned it, exactly the same thing, > > hung again. > > > > Any ideas what could be going on? I specifically haven't included a > > hardware list with this email, I figure if a year old Mandrake and a > > Test 1 can be installed it shouldn't be a hardware thing. > > > > I'm a relative newbie, used Mandrake for a year, had to give it up for > > work reasons, now have a machine at home I can learn on, want to run > > Fedora (didn't learn enough with Mandrake, too easy) > > > > Thanks > > > > ED > > > It's voodoo. Type "voodoo" at the initial boot prompt. It'll complain it > can't boot "voodoo". At the next boot prompt just type return and off you > go. Try it. Seriously. > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
