ok, so ive bought a new HDD or my computer that had the old one crash. I really want to put Fedora Core 6 on it, but the install keeps failing.

I've had the same problem with this computer on the old hard drive: I've had RH 7, RH 9, FC 3 work okay in the past, as well as Gentoo Linux and Slackware. actually Slackware is on it now, but its an old distro and not playing well with some of the hardware. The FC6 distro i have is good, i installed it on my laptop without major problems.

my desktop computer is your basic Dell Dimension 2350 circa early 2003 (P4, 512MB, GeForce FX video, blah blah blah)

I wonder if it may be failing due to some USB hardware? the Slackware would not install correctly until i disabled USB hot plugging (linux -nohotplug)

i tried to boot FC6 several times, and i tried to bypass all hardware probing (linux -noprobe) i still get the same error message.

here is the message, does any of you CS or Linux gurus have any idea what the cause is?

EIP: [<c04140c7>] clear_local_APIC+0x11/0xaf SS:ESP 0068:c1483598
 <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
 <1>BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffd370
 printing eip:
c04140c7
*pde = 00004067
Oops: 0003 [#10]
SMP
last sysfs file:
Modules linked in:
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<c04140c7>]    Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010006   (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1)
EIP is at clear_local_APIC+0x11/0xaf
eax: 000100fe   ebx: c1483598   ecx: 000000fb   edx: 0000cefb
esi: 00000068   edi: df9015f0   ebp: df9015f0   esp: c1483478
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss:0068
Process Swapper (pid: 1, ti=c14830000 task=df9015f0 task.ti=c14830000)
Stack: c041416a c0412a66 00000000 c0420b4c c062a20a c07cc320 00000000 00000006
       c042d435 c14834b0 c1483598 00000068 c042347b c062a3a8 c064fc63 c14834dc
       00000004 c06239f3 c14834dc 0000000b 00000068 c1483564 c1483598 00000068
Call Trace:
 [<c041416a>] disable_local_APIC+0x5/0x29

5/26/2007 12:12:52 AM

Is this when booting from the CD or booting from the drive?

Regardless, it seems to be an issue with the video card...
[link]http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:XEIewhKdRlMJ:http://www.usenetlinux.com/archive/topic.php/t-687415.html[/link]

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=498600

[Edited on May 26, 2007 at 12:30 AM. Reason : ]

[Edited on May 26, 2007 at 12:32 AM. Reason : ]

5/26/2007 12:24:41 AM

trying to install from the CD distribution.

well, i guess i could try removing the video card

5/26/2007 12:47:13 AM

i'll be damned.

all i had to do was turn off my PCI video card in the BIOS, and enable the onboard video.

at least for now. it looks like I'll h ave to remove a bunch of conflicting crap and recompile the kernel to get my video card to work... but i guess thats the joy of linux eh?

thanks for your help. that must have been some Advanced Google Research Techniques you used there. telll me where to send payment

5/26/2007 1:22:29 AM

try 'noapic' as a boot parameter, or maybe even just pci=noapic

[Edited on May 26, 2007 at 6:51 PM. Reason : with the video card installed]

5/26/2007 6:50:01 PM