Gerhard Magnus wrote:
Greetings!
I'm trying to install FC4 on a new box I'll be dual booting with
Windows XP. I have already used the installation CDs to successfully
install FC4 on my older computer.
The new box is a Pentium 4 with a DVD drive. I have used this drive in
working with the Windows XP that is already installed on the machine and
it seems to handle CDs without problems.
Soon after booting with the first FC4 CD and choosing a graphical
installation I get the error message: "Kernel panic -- not syncing:
attempted to kill init!" (Linux is anything if not dramatic.) The
system hangs and I have to power it down to do a restart. I've tried
entering "linux noprobe", "linux skipddc" and "linux text" at that first
prompt but they all give the same result.
I'm not sure where to go from here. Any suggestions would be much
appreciated.
Jerry
http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Caveats_and_Known_Bugs_on_FC4
Synopsis:
If the installation process crashes with a kernel oops or crash then
you are likely running into a bug with sysinstall which potentially
affects the Southbridge chipsets: 865, 875, 915, 925, 945, 955
Workaround:
In the installation boot prompt type in some garbage. The
boot process will fail with an error message. Press enter twice to start
the installation process again.
Bugzilla Bug 159026 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159026> (/https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159026/) – machine oopses on booting from CD
regards
Rahul
