Edward Dekkers wrote:
Chris wrote:
Greetings -
Has anyone ever managed to install FC4 on a Sony Vaio desktop, modelVGC-RB53 ? I can install - but on boot up after the install, I get a kernel panic and it just hangs.
Hangs tend to be able to be worked around by using boot parameters.
Try some of the ones listed at:
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#otherinstall
While you're there - bookmark the site. It's extremely handy.
Regards, Ed.
Welp - I tried all sorts of stuff. Still a no-go. Here's how I'm doing this:
Primary SATA drive is XP Secondary SATA is for CentOS or FC4 (whichever I can get to work)
On complete install of either (it installs just dandy) and reboot into the virgin install, I get the kernel panic (poop loads of code) and the caps lock and scroll lock lights on the keyboard are both flashing at the same time.
Some other info that may be relevent - I am using a Belkin OmniView SE 4 port PS/2 KVM (I don't know it that may be the issue after the fact).
Anyhow - if someone else can shed some light - I really would like to NOT use XP, and even though I like FreeBSD, I would prefer the use of CentOS or FC4.
Help!
On 05/02/06, Chris racerx@makeworld.com wrote:
Welp - I tried all sorts of stuff. Still a no-go. Here's how I'm doing this:
Primary SATA drive is XP Secondary SATA is for CentOS or FC4 (whichever I can get to work)
On complete install of either (it installs just dandy) and reboot into the virgin install, I get the kernel panic (poop loads of code) and the caps lock and scroll lock lights on the keyboard are both flashing at the same time.
Does the system have a Hyperthreading CPU? Have you tried both single processor (labelled UP or -up in the Grub boot screen) and multiprocessor (SMP) kernels?
I would've thought the fact it runs the installer implied the system is capable of booting a linux kernel. So it's possibly something different between the minimal kernel/initrd the installer uses and the full blown kernel/initd booted after the install.
Will.
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Chris -
Will McDonald