I had a similar problem with my HP Pavilion a1129n which is made to work with Windows XP. HP was of no help because they said that the computer was not made to work with Linux. Fedora was not the only distro that gave this error. The only one that would install at first was MEPIS. As my hardware aged and distros caught up to it, more distros would install without the kernel panic error. Now I can install just about anything.
One thing that worked was to add some strings at boot up in grub. I would try things like apm=poweroff, vga=normal, nomce, acpi=off, pnpbios=off, idc=nodma, xdrvr=vesa, noapic or irqpoll to improve my chances. Some worked and some didn't, depending on the distro. It was trial and error. That seems like ages ago as things have really improved. Since Fedora 4 is rather old, I would suggest that you try a more recent version. If this does not work then I would suggest a more user friendly distro such as PCLinuxOS or MEPIS (which is still in beta for the latest release). SUSE 10.3 (just out) or Ubuntu 7.04 are also good bets. If you like Windows look and feel you could try Freespire. I have used them all at one time or another. PCLinuxOS and MEPIS are very good at hardware detection. The difference is that the first is a RPM based distro and the second is Debian based. We each have our biases which one we prefer. I have always found Debian based distros to be more stable and to have fewer problems with dependency issues, but then someone else may say the opposite. If you want lots of support and huge depositories at your disposal you can try Ubuntu in one of its many flavors (Ubuntu for Gnome desktop, Kubuntu for KDE and others are also available. The newest SUSE is out and it also has great hardware detection and has Novell and Microsoft behind it, if you don't mind the connection. The momentum is currently with PCLinuxOS (based on Mandrake, but much better) and Ubuntu (7.10 is due on October 18 and a release candidate is available now) which are very popular, but there are also strong user bases in smaller distros. Check out Distrowatch.org for links to the distros. Cheers, Roy ----- Original Message ---- From: senthilraja_g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 3:16:23 AM Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] kernal panic -not syncing : Attempted to kill init Acually i want to install Fedro 4 in my DELL Dimension. While rebooting i am getting error like kernal panic -not syncing: Attempted to kill init! Anyone can help me to fit into this problem? 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