Fedora5 Kernel Panic

Hi,

After I upgraded from Fedora4 to Fedora5 I ended up with kernel panic when
booting into it.

I had media checked all 5 CDs and all were OK.

Make a new install of Fedora5, same kernel panic on booting.

Google 'fedora5 kernel panic', lots of kernel panic problems with no solutions
offered.

I started Linux with RedHat 5.2 and upgraded all the way to Fedora5 which now
seems to be the end of my affiliation with this distro. Did not use it anyhow
anymore, just kept it more for nostalgic reasons.

This is meant as a warning to those planing to upgrade to Fedora5, just beware.

Did somebody say Bill Gates dos not have to worry about Linux?

Regards
--
Peter

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Re: Fedora5 Kernel Panic

>
> Did somebody say Bill Gates dos not have to worry about Linux?
>
he prolly does not have to worry about fedora from now on, atleast :D

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Re: Fedora5 Kernel Panic

On 06-12, Peter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After I upgraded from Fedora4 to Fedora5 I ended up with kernel panic when
> booting into it.
>
> I had media checked all 5 CDs and all were OK.
>
> Make a new install of Fedora5, same kernel panic on booting.
>
> Google 'fedora5 kernel panic', lots of kernel panic problems with no solutions
> offered.
>
> I started Linux with RedHat 5.2 and upgraded all the way to Fedora5 which now
> seems to be the end of my affiliation with this distro. Did not use it anyhow
> anymore, just kept it more for nostalgic reasons.
>
>
> Did somebody say Bill Gates dos not have to worry about Linux?

With his money does he have to "worry" about anything??

Anyway; I successfully installed FC5 on two machines as long
as I checked the media first, but this was with the DVD version
rather than the CD version; two disks.. Could your CD's have a
problem??

Since the install completed and the problem is booting; am
wondering if a problem with the first sector of your HD not being
liked by FC5?? Did you try zeroing the first sector before retrying?
Some remnant code still there from previous work?

Since the distrib uses Grub; wonder what the /boot/grub files
have to say about it?? I wonder if there's a "spot" on your HD that it
doesn't like, and doesn't show up with other distribs?

Maybe just a "fluke" much like your installing some stuff
that failed for me in the past.. Ugh..

Not defending FC5, not my favourite.. As you know, I don't
use it..

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..
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Re: Fedora5 Kernel Panic

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:57:19 -0400
Hal MacArgle wrote:

> On 06-12, Peter wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > After I upgraded from Fedora4 to Fedora5 I ended up with kernel panic when
> > booting into it.
> >
> > I had media checked all 5 CDs and all were OK.
> >
> > Make a new install of Fedora5, same kernel panic on booting.
> >
> > Google 'fedora5 kernel panic', lots of kernel panic problems with no solutions
> > offered.
> >
> > I started Linux with RedHat 5.2 and upgraded all the way to Fedora5 which now
> > seems to be the end of my affiliation with this distro. Did not use it anyhow
> > anymore, just kept it more for nostalgic reasons.
> >
> >
> > Did somebody say Bill Gates dos not have to worry about Linux?
>
> With his money does he have to "worry" about anything??
>
> Anyway; I successfully installed FC5 on two machines as long
> as I checked the media first, but this was with the DVD version
> rather than the CD version; two disks.. Could your CD's have a
> problem??
>
> Since the install completed and the problem is booting; am
> wondering if a problem with the first sector of your HD not being
> liked by FC5?? Did you try zeroing the first sector before retrying?
> Some remnant code still there from previous work?
>
> Since the distrib uses Grub; wonder what the /boot/grub files
> have to say about it?? I wonder if there's a "spot" on your HD that it
> doesn't like, and doesn't show up with other distribs?
>
> Maybe just a "fluke" much like your installing some stuff
> that failed for me in the past.. Ugh..
>
> Not defending FC5, not my favourite.. As you know, I don't
> use it..

>

I tried to install on separate HDs. I formnatted them beforehand.
And anyhow it fouled-up my fedora4 installation first when I made the upgrade.

When I checked with google on 'fedora5 kernel panic' they all reported the
same errors as I am getting on booting before it stops with kernel
panic .

When I looked into /etc/fstab it had there a /dev/root which on booting it
reported it could not find. My swap was LABEL=&%@* and more weird
characters. /etc/mtab had only one entry /dev/root

So I guess there is really a bug in this particular fedora5 edition.
--
Peter
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