David Bolt wrote: > On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:- > >> 10.2a4 cd1 & mini-iso (both checked with md5sum on file and verified by >> k3b burner) >> >> Very early in install, "Kernel panic - not syncing: attempted to kill >> init!" occurs just after "freeing unused kernel memory" message, which >> is followed by "SMP" alone on a line. Hardware isn't SMP... > > I don't see the SMP on mine, and the system which I'm trying to install > it upon doesn't support SMP as yet (see below).
The text is just above where your screenshot starts. > >> Tried default install, "safe settings" and using F4 to pre-select NFS & >> server - all crash in the same way. >> >> Hardware is AMD K6-2/500 with 512M RAM, ATI AGP video; runs 10.1 perfectly. >> >> I can post a picture of the screen but obviously no log files etc. > > Probably looks remarkably similar to this[0]: Yes, very similar - though the bit just above (see my previous comment) may be relevant > > <URL:http://www.davjam.org/~davjam/images/parallels_10.2alpha4.gif> > >> This looks similar to 203466 (not posted by me) though that was 10.2 >> alpha 3. >> >> Has anyone had a successful install on 10.2a4 on similar low end hardware? > > Not a low end system, but have successfully upgraded from alpha3 on a > laptop[1]. I won't make too many comments about the changes to KDE, > except to say that I switched the KDE menu back to classic style after > only a few minutes of testing. I will check it out on a rather better machine tomorrow (2GHz AMD though with only 256M RAM). My primary testbench is only this old K6-2/500, though 10.1 ran very happily on it (apart from the issues that we all know about regarding 10.1...) > >> I have raised bug 204252 for this. > > This looks exactly the same as the problem I, and at least one other > person, have when trying to install it on a Parallels virtual machine. > > The bug report in that case (#202605) was originally reported as a > failure of alpha3 to install where it locked up and, in my case, > occupied 100% CPU time of one processor of my SMP machine. > > > [0] Why it's showing the kernel is tainted, I have no idea. The > screenshot in bug #202605 shows the same with an untainted kernel. I don't see any comments about taint. I get 'Not tainted VLI' in place of your line showing taint. May be a red herring !? > > [1] Anyone using a DVD built using makeSUSEdvd will possibly find it > fails to work. For some reason, the DVD install failed to initialise the > catalogues and I had to resort to using CDs instead :| > I started trying to do a net install (from local repository) but when that crashed I switched to a standard CD install (which crashed in just the same way). The testbed machine doesn't have a CD reader, but does have a network link to my file server. > Regards, > David Bolt > Seems like there are several of us with - at least superficially - similar problems. Regards, -- Richard --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
