On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 5:44 PM, quartz <qua...@sneakertech.com> wrote: > first off, apologies if this is a known issue. I didn't see anything > relevant in the release notes/changes, and nothing came up in a google > search. > > I have an older pentium 3 machine. 450mhz cpu, 100mhz bus, intel "sun > river" 440bx motherboard, 128mb of ram (of which something like 12 are > being used for the onboard video). generic seagate 10gb ata drive > connected with one ribbon cable, cd drive connected with another. no pci > cards or other addons. > > a couple days ago I tried to install 5.0 release via the "install50.iso" I > downloaded off a mirror. however, the installer doesn't get very far. it > completely loads the ram disk, but then it kernel panics instantly with a > 'trap type 6'. no messages about found hardware or anything, it prints out > the copyright message and the panic message all in one swift motion. I > don't even get enough text to scroll the disk prompt off the top of the > screen. nothing I do changes this behavior. > > I have tried the following: > - typing "boot -c" at the boot prompt (still panics) > - disabling different combinations of things in the bios > - swapping cd drives > - swapping ata cables > - swapping which ata port the cd was connected to > - swapped ram > - ran a memtest overnight > - verified the checksum on the install50.iso > - tried booting from cd50.iso > > now, the fun part is that this only happens with 5.0, I can boot and > install off the 4.9 and 4.5 'install##.iso' cds just fine. > > I don't have the knowledge or hardware to try and debug this via serial, > and I can't try booting off a floppy because I threw out all my floppy > drives years ago. I can give a dmesg from 4.9 if people think it might > help.
dmesg can only help. also, periodically try newer snapshots.
