From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263893AbUISVHF (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Sep 2004 17:07:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263962AbUISVHE (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Sep 2004 17:07:04 -0400 Received: from imf25aec.mail.bellsouth.net ([205.152.59.73]:13722 "EHLO imf25aec.mail.bellsouth.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263893AbUISVHB (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Sep 2004 17:07:01 -0400 From: David Sanders To: "linux-kernel" Subject: Kernel Panic, Fedora Core 2, Virtual PC Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 17:07:03 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200409191707.04177.linux@sandersweb.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Trying to install Fedora Core 2 on Virtual PC (using Dell Dimension 4600 with 2.8 GHz with HT, 1 GB or RAM.) it crashes right after typing 'linux text'. Here is what's left on the screen: apm: overridden by ACPI. audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1093558315.547:0): initialized Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0 VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) SELinux:  Registering netfilter hooks invalid operand: 0000 [#1] CPU:    0   EIP:    0060:[]    Not tainted EFLAGS: 00000286   (2.6.5-1.358) EIP is at mwait_idle+0x23/0x40 eax: c031f008   ebx: c031f000   ecx: 00000000   edx: 00000000 esi: 00039100   edi: c034e7a0   ebp: 003b2007   esp: c031ffec ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068 Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo=c031f000 task=c02cdaa0) Stack: 00020800 c010408a c03205fe c034e7c0 c010019f Call Trace:      [] cpu_idle+0x1d/0x32  [] start_kernel+0x174/0x176                                                                         Code: 0f 01 c8 8b 43 08 a8 08 75 0c 89 c8 0f 01 c9 8b 43 08 a8 08  <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task! In idle task - not syncing What to do?