Re: FC4/x86_64 install: kernel panic (unable to mount root FS)

[Nathaniel Reindl <fiction@sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 06:29:45PM -0500, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> I upgraded FC3 -> FC4 using a DVD I got from Steve. I had no problems
> booting from it directly to the boot: prompt. From there I just hit
> <Enter> and things were off & running. No double-pump required either
> during the installation or after.

That's the expected operation that I'd spent a week trying to figure
out.  I tried it again while I was half-awake and ended up munging up
the line that I use to get the ball rolling, and I managed to get the
installer to run.  FWIW, it failed both with the CD set I got from Steve
and with the DVD I burned myself, so his NFS issues at the store weren't
what caused it.

As appropriate when I'm halfway to dreamland, I did a double-take,
rebooted, hit only <RET> at the boot: prompt, watched the familiar
kernel panic take place, rebooted, and munged it up again on purpose.
After that, I checked Bugzilla and fedora-list, and behold, people were
having the same problem on some oddball Intel 915-based boards!  By the
time I'd stumbled upon it, people'd already started mentioning some
Opteron boards.

> P.S. Post install, though, I must have spent an hour stripping out all
> the non-English packages for aspell, openoffice.org, man, etc. The last
> time I tried asking for a 'Merican-only "everything" install, every git
> with a room temperature (or lower) IQ chimed in to ask what there was
> about the word "everything" I didn't understand.

... and this is why I get a list of all packages included in the
everything distribution through comps.xml and weed out the groups and
packages I don't want.  That list goes into a kickstart script named
something like fc4-x86_64-cloudleaper-ks.cfg so that I don't have to
bother with any of that.  Exactly the packages I want, none of what I
don't.

-- 
Nathaniel Reindl, freelance tech support monkey and college student
Fedora Core 4 kernel 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 on an AMD Opteron 240

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