gosselin_andre
I am trying to install FC4 on an HP DL385 (2 AMD Opteron CPU's + smartarray controller). The install goes smoothly, and all the hardware is correctly recognized. Module cciss is loaded, and disks are seen as
/dev/cciss/c0d[012etc] . Grub is correcty installed in the MBR.
However, whem I try to boot the machine folowing the install, a kernel panic strikes instantaneously, and errors messages fly by so fast that unfortunately I cannot get the initial error condition. All I am left with is the end of a stack trace.
If I boot a rescuecd, I can access my disk partitions, and verify
that all appears ok.
Does anybody have a clue to help me ? Thanks all.
/dev/cciss/c0d[012etc] . Grub is correcty installed in the MBR.
However, whem I try to boot the machine folowing the install, a kernel panic strikes instantaneously, and errors messages fly by so fast that unfortunately I cannot get the initial error condition. All I am left with is the end of a stack trace.
If I boot a rescuecd, I can access my disk partitions, and verify
that all appears ok.
Does anybody have a clue to help me ? Thanks all.
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onore
Hi there,
I have the same problem and same hardware (HP DL385/2x 2.4GHZ AMD Opteron/SmartArray6i). I get this error when trying to boot with Fedora Core(2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp).
'Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!'
However it works with uniprocessor Fedora Core-UP(2.6.11-1.1369_FC4).
Which I'm not too happy about to run with.
I've decided to try some other linux.
Anyone got a solution for this problem?
I have the same problem and same hardware (HP DL385/2x 2.4GHZ AMD Opteron/SmartArray6i). I get this error when trying to boot with Fedora Core(2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp).
'Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!'
However it works with uniprocessor Fedora Core-UP(2.6.11-1.1369_FC4).
Which I'm not too happy about to run with.
I've decided to try some other linux.
Anyone got a solution for this problem?
onore
Hello again,
I gave up on Fedora and switched to RedHat4 which seems to work much better.
Cheers
I gave up on Fedora and switched to RedHat4 which seems to work much better.
Cheers
gosselin_andre
OP
To Onore:
You said you switched to RedHat4 on your DL385. I assume you mean RHEL4 ?
RHEL4 is in fact the only distro I was able to install on my DL385. Unfortunately you must purchase a subscription to get at it, and also to get the updates. Above that, it is a bit outdated (no ReiserFS for ex.), and dates back to FC3.
I still cannot believe that FC4 (or Mandriva 2006 for that matter) cannot work on that machine, and hope someone will eventually come up with a solution.
Cheers
You said you switched to RedHat4 on your DL385. I assume you mean RHEL4 ?
RHEL4 is in fact the only distro I was able to install on my DL385. Unfortunately you must purchase a subscription to get at it, and also to get the updates. Above that, it is a bit outdated (no ReiserFS for ex.), and dates back to FC3.
I still cannot believe that FC4 (or Mandriva 2006 for that matter) cannot work on that machine, and hope someone will eventually come up with a solution.
Cheers
