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Dear Group Members

I have a Tyan Thunder K8SR (S2881) with 1 x 248 AMD Opteron, 2 GB RAM,
4 SATA disks (2 Raid 1 sets). I install in text mode from cdrom and
select nothing (=minimal). The installation runs smoothly until 33% of
"Performing post install configuration...". Then there is a kernel
panic. This problem occurs with Fedora Core 2 x68_64 as well as with
Fedora Core 3 Test 3 x64_64.

Has anybody any idea how to proceed? I was told that SUSE 9.1 does
work with the above configuration. But I don't want to switch the
distribution because I know RedHat sind version 5.

Regards,
Marc

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.tyan (More info?)

Previously Marc Petitmermet <petitmermet@mat.ethz.ch> wrote:
> Dear Group Members

> I have a Tyan Thunder K8SR (S2881) with 1 x 248 AMD Opteron, 2 GB RAM,
> 4 SATA disks (2 Raid 1 sets). I install in text mode from cdrom and
> select nothing (=minimal). The installation runs smoothly until 33% of
> "Performing post install configuration...". Then there is a kernel
> panic. This problem occurs with Fedora Core 2 x68_64 as well as with
> Fedora Core 3 Test 3 x64_64.

> Has anybody any idea how to proceed? I was told that SUSE 9.1 does
> work with the above configuration. But I don't want to switch the
> distribution because I know RedHat sind version 5.

Get a current Kernel from www.kernel.org and roll your own.
You might have to go back to an i386/single-CPU kernel
to get the installation done first. You can then start
experimenting. This will need some time to get it right,
but you learn a lot. I have made good experiences with 2.6.7
on a dual-opteron (MSI board) with 2*2GB RAM.

The cutting edge is 2.6.9-rc4.

You usually can change kernels for a distro yourself, at least
with Debian and SuSE it works. To avoid problems and make
experimentation easier, I advise to do a non-module kernel (i.e.
disable modules).

It is also possible that this is purely an installation isue (some
hardware probing failing os so) and that you can just go back
the the X86_64 kernel after installation.

Arno
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