On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 17:55 +0300, Pasi Pirhonen wrote:

/ Hi,

/>/ />/ />/ On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 05:48:50PM +0800, Yeo Chang Lim wrote: />/ > Hi, />/ > />/ > I am trying to install Centos 4.1 on IA64 machine. However, during />/ > loading of vmlinuz and initrd.img , i will get a kernel panic. Does />/ > anyone has this problem? I think it's due to initrd.img />/ />/ You need to give some more information />/ />/ a) What kind of hardware (rx1600, rx2600 only tested by me, maintainer) />/ b) where you boot from (CD i'd assume) />/ c) What does it panic for. There must be something on the screen />/ />/ Generally. The information 'i boot it on something something and it's />/ panics' isn't enought. /

Lim, also, make sure that the machine you're installing on is IA64 and not AMD (which is x86_64). One of our guys made that mistake last week, and wasted a lot of time trying to figure out why it was panicking.

Hi guys,

Thanks for replying. I am sure that my machine is an IA64 and not x86_64.

The hardware is HP rx4610 running Itanium 1 processor and not Itanium 2. I tried booting from both pxe and CD. Both gave the same error.

The error message is " kernel panic - not syncing : Fatal exception" This error comes out after "running /sbin/loader " message during boot up.