[K12OSN] Kernel panic

[Edward Holcroft]

ha, don't even mention MSI - I stopped using them and never had  
trouble with Intels until now. I'll give the BIOS update a try  
tomorrow when I'm back in the office and will give feedback on  
success/failure.

ed
On 31 Aug 2005, at 6:34 PM, Huck wrote:

> I don't know...
> I had some MSI board that would NEVER boot with the 4.2 disc...but  
> 4.1 was fine...never figured a fix for that..just decided to use  
> debian and backuppc for that box =)
> The Intels tho...were just finicky(sp)..
>
> --Huck
>
> Edward Holcroft wrote:
>
>> I'll try your suggestion, but why would some mb's work on 4.2 and  
>> not  on 4.4 (at least not without coaxing).
>> ed
>> On 31 Aug 2005, at 5:16 PM, Huck wrote:
>>
>>> all of the Intel mobo's I've purchased have notoriously come  
>>> with  OLD bios code...one even prevented using the dual  
>>> processors on the  board...
>>>
>>> I'd check to make sure you don't need to flash the bios with an   
>>> upgrade on Intel's website to ensure that's not the problem.
>>>
>>> It was for me when I was upgrading one box from k12ltsp4.0 to 4.2  
>>> I  believe.
>>>
>>> --Huck
>>>
>>> Edward Holcroft wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi List
>>>> I get an error "kernel panic - not syncing" when trying to  
>>>> instal   K12LTSP.
>>>> Upon googling I came across this strange solution:
>>>> type "linux garbage" and hit enter
>>>> or
>>>> type "garbage" at the install prompt, hit enter twice and  
>>>> voila.  Go  figure. But it worked (mostly using this second  
>>>> option). Until  now,  that is.
>>>> Someone says it's to a common problem with Intel and certain   
>>>> other  specific motherboards, but I've never had this issue   
>>>> before, with all  the dozens of Intel MB's I've used in the  
>>>> past.  Furthermore, I now  have two machines, with Intel MB's  
>>>> that will  not buy the solution  mentioned above - they just  
>>>> keep giving a  kernel panic. Perhaps I  should add that some  
>>>> machines installed  fine under K12LTSP 4.2.1 but  needed the  
>>>> workaround under 4.4.0  These new motherboards that I got  today  
>>>> don't even want to  install the old versions of K12LTSP right   
>>>> back to 4.1.
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>> ed
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