Reposted on the off-chance that no one saw it, since I cannot fix the problem by myself. If no one knows what it is, I'll bugzilla it sometime tomorrow. Thanks for any help you can suggest! :-) On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 19:28 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > Hey: > > I am failing to install FC4-T1 on a Dell Optiplex GXpro with a Pentium > Pro @ 200 MHz, 64MB of ECC RAM, 4.3GB drive, slow non-IDE non-bootable > CD-ROM, and built-in 3c905 Ethernet adapter. This machine is known as > Gemini on the LAN. > > Gemini is my main test machine and gets reinstalled constantly. It > successfully installed FC1, FC2, and FC3 but barfs quickly on the > installer for FC1-T4. Before I go off half-cocked to Bugzilla, let me > ask you guys whether there's a known workaround and, if not, what > information I should supply to Bugzilla. Here's what I do: > > 1. Download and check with sha1sum all the ISO files. All pass. > > 2. Expand them into an install tree. > > 3. Copy .../3.90/i386/os/isolinux/vmlinuz and initrd.img into > Gemini's /boot. Modify /boot/grub/grub.conf to boot them. > > 4. Boot into the FC4-T1 installer. > > 5. Am prompted for language, keyboard, and install method. Select > "English," "us" or "us-acentos," and "FTP." > > 6. Get IP address via DHCP fine, then point to correct FTP directory > for network install. Download begins. If I leave everything alone, in > about 15 seconds I get the following error repeated a few dozen times > and then a hard lockup (after about one second of repeating errors): > > " <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: kernel/sched.c:313: spin_lock > (kernel/sched.c:c04501c0) already locked by kernel/sched.c/313. (Not > tainted)" > > 7. In an effort to troubleshoot, I press Alt-F3 to get some sort of > progress indications. Stuff pages by quickly, but I'm able to see the > "ext3" and "xfs" modules being loaded just before a LOT of stuff gets > quickly thrown on-screen and these errors get repeated. Once the box > locks I get nothing at all from it. > > So... can I work around this? Nothing found in Google, nothing found in > Bugzilla, no clue here. Or should I post to Bugzilla as a new bug? If > so, is there any additional diagnostic step to take so the bug filed is > more useful? > > Help... :-) > > Thanks, > > -- > Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > -- Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>