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Kernel panic at start of RedHat 9 install disk

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Felecha

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I installed RedHat 9 on my home computer some time ago, in a partition on my second hard drive, a Seagate 80gb that I used half for storage, half for the RedHat.

Recently my motherboard began to die and I just finished replacing it. Windows XP did not like the new setup and required reactivation, which I expected. The RedHat did a kernel panic thing when I first tried it, and I guessed maybe it too freaked out on the new environment.

So tonight I dug out the set of install disks for RH 9, and when I booted to Disk 1, and the welcome screen where I selected to install using graphical mode, I hit Enter and it did the same kernel panic.

I'm not an expert at all, but I would have thought the boot from Disk 1 would proceed without that kind of problem
 
Are you really attached to Redhat 9 for some reason? Sure it'd be nice to figure out what's going wrong, but you'd be far better off just forgetting about it and using something that's not from the stone age 😉
 
I remember a while back I updated my bios and could do nothing with linux was apparently getting kernel panic also...so finally flashed back to previos version to fix it.

Maybe now that you got xp staraightened out check for a bios upgrade?? just a thought.
 
I did RH9 because we use it for one of our systems at work. I'm still learning about it and it makes sense to use the same at home, after all
 
And there is a BIOS upgrade available for the board - ASRock 939DualSATA2. It is currently v 1.20 and there is a 1.40 on the ASRock site.

But I hesitate to do the update. I flashed a modem a couple of years ago and destroyed it. I was very very careful to do everything exactly according to the instructions.

Maybe nowadays it's different, I just hesitate, that's all

So back to the question - I thought there wouldn't be anything for the kernel to panic about in starting up from the install disk
 
no, don't age me any faster please😉

before I flashed back I tried to reinstall ubuntu and it wouldn't even do that
 
Just looking for a peer. I started out in 49. The old man icon actually looks a bit like me, glasses and white fringe
 
Well, I downloaded the 4 iso's for Fedora Core 4. I did the sha1sum on all 4 and they passed. So I burned them to CD with CDBurnerXP Pro 3, using File|Write Disc from ISO file . . .

When I did Media Check at the install, it says it failed.

Maybe the burning was not OK? CDBurnerXP has always worked fine for other burning
 
I burned a second copy of Disk 1 after verifying it again with sha1sum. It too failed.

Is there another free CD Burner that does ISO's that I should try?
 
don't verify the disks, it's a cruel joke by redhat.

just load them up and install, everything should work out fine.

edit: or rather, don't do the media check. the verifying by sha1sum doesn't hurt anything.
 
OK, I read the FAQ item

Q: The installer's media check says all my CDs are bad!
A: There is a bug in the kernel which causes the media check to say some CDs are bad when they are not, on some systems. To do a successful media check, do the following:
At the installer prompt, type:

linux mediacheck ide=nodma
Run the media check on your CDs/DVD.
Reboot, and run the installer normally.

So I read that as saying do those steps and go on to install. Does that mean they expect it not to fail if you say ide=nodma? Or that after doing those steps you'll be OK to go on even if it fails?

I did the ide=nodma thing and it still failed when it ran the media check

Bottom line you seem to say don't worry, just go on
 
yup, just continue with the install.

if you want to be extra cautious, you could try burning the disc's at like 2x or something slow like that to make sure it's not the burn speed causing problems. also, I've always had good luck with memorex for media, haven't really tried anything else though.
 
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