2.6.14-1.1696_FC5 installs but kernel crashes on boot

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 07:48:40PM +0000, Andy Burns wrote:
 > Dave Jones wrote:
 > 
 > >Does it boot if you boot with maxcpus=1 ?
 > >(I'm guessing you have hyperthreading enabled)
 > 
 > No it doesn't, I had already tried disabling HT in the BIOS.
 > 
 > I did notice when booting in rescue mode from the CD
 > the sizes of "unused kernel memory freed" and "kernel read-only data
 > write protected" were different from the sizes when booting from hard
 > disk, is that a different kernel used by the installer, or just
 > different modules in use?

installer uses the 586 kernel, and then installs the 686 kernel.
It's interesting that the 586 kernel works though, as that also
has the writeprotect-rodata patch applied.

		Dave