[wplug] RH7.2 panic on reboot after install

[T Quine]

It could be that it installed the wrong kernel, have you tried turning off 
the Pentium III serial-number disabler?  Here's a URL that describes how:

http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/tips/ThunderBird-Duron.html

Good luck.

-QUINE-



>From: John <john1 at husek.com>
>Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
>To: WPLUG <wplug at wplug.org>
>Subject: [wplug] RH7.2 panic on reboot after install
>Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 12:33:48 -0500 (EST)
>
>Hi all,
>
>I'm new to WPLUG.
>
>I've been using linux for a while now, and can generally fix any problem I
>come across... but not this one (at least not yet).
>
>Any suggestions are more than welcome (even guesses).
>
>The short version:
>new RH7.2 install has kernel panic on first reboot (actually all boots)
>after install.
>
>The long version:
>Athlon 1.2 GHz (266 FSB) on a Tyan Trinity (S2390B) motherboard with 128
>MB RAM, and an IDE HD (seagate ST310212A, 10 GB).  I'm doing an install,
>not an upgrade.  The install seems to work just fine, but it never reboots
>OK.  It dies with a kernel panic which always seems to happen around the
>same time as swap starts up (but that's more of a guess).  The error
>scrolls off the screen, but what's left are things like:
>
>Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 000055f9
>  <bunch of code junk>
>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
>00000000
>  <bunch of code junk>
>Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
>In interrupt handler - not syncing
>
>I've made sure I've set the BIOS hard drive params to what Seagate
>suggests (auto-detect, LBA mode).  I've used LILO and GRUB, I've made a
>separate boot partition, removed all PCI cards (left the AGP video).
>I've tried telling the bios there is (and isn't) a PnP OS installed.
>
>I don't think there is a log available because I think it dies when
>getting swap, let alone passing the fsck of the root partition (which, by
>the way, is the only partition).
>
>I've been trying things like changing available IRQ's, making smaller swap
>partitions (128 MB).  Most of what I'm trying are basically shots in the
>dark... and even at that I'm running out.
>
>I'll probably have to suck it up soon and use 7.1 instead, but that would
>just kill me.  ;)
>
>Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
>
>-Scott
>("john1" is just a username)
>
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