David Bolt wrote:

On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Richard wrote:-

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10.2a4 cd1 & mini-iso (both checked with md5sum on file and verified by k3b burner)

Very early in install, "Kernel panic - not syncing: attempted to kill init!" occurs just after "freeing unused kernel memory" message, which is followed by "SMP" alone on a line. Hardware isn't SMP...

I don't see the SMP on mine, and the system which I'm trying to install it upon doesn't support SMP as yet (see below).

The text is just above where your screenshot starts.

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Tried default install, "safe settings" and using F4 to pre-select NFS & server - all crash in the same way.

Hardware is AMD K6-2/500 with 512M RAM, ATI AGP video; runs 10.1 perfectly.

I can post a picture of the screen but obviously no log files etc.

Probably looks remarkably similar to this[0]:

Yes, very similar - though the bit just above (see my previous comment) may be relevant

URL:http://www.davjam.org/~davjam/images/parallels_10.2alpha4.gif

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This looks similar to 203466 (not posted by me) though that was 10.2 alpha 3.

Has anyone had a successful install on 10.2a4 on similar low end hardware?

Not a low end system, but have successfully upgraded from alpha3 on a laptop[1]. I won't make too many comments about the changes to KDE, except to say that I switched the KDE menu back to classic style after only a few minutes of testing.

I will check it out on a rather better machine tomorrow (2GHz AMD though with only 256M RAM). My primary testbench is only this old K6-2/500, though 10.1 ran very happily on it (apart from the issues that we all know about regarding 10.1...)

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I have raised bug 204252 for this.

This looks exactly the same as the problem I, and at least one other person, have when trying to install it on a Parallels virtual machine.

The bug report in that case (#202605) was originally reported as a failure of alpha3 to install where it locked up and, in my case, occupied 100% CPU time of one processor of my SMP machine.

[0] Why it's showing the kernel is tainted, I have no idea. The screenshot in bug #202605 shows the same with an untainted kernel.

I don't see any comments about taint. I get 'Not tainted VLI' in place of your line showing taint. May be a red herring !?

[1] Anyone using a DVD built using makeSUSEdvd will possibly find it fails to work. For some reason, the DVD install failed to initialise the catalogues and I had to resort to using CDs instead :|

I started trying to do a net install (from local repository) but when that crashed I switched to a standard CD install (which crashed in just the same way). The testbed machine doesn't have a CD reader, but does have a network link to my file server.

Regards, David Bolt

Seems like there are several of us with - at least superficially - similar problems. Regards, -- Richard --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

Andreas Jaeger wrote:

David Bolt writes:

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On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Richard wrote:-

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10.2a4 cd1 & mini-iso (both checked with md5sum on file and verified by k3b burner)

Very early in install, "Kernel panic - not syncing: attempted to kill init!" occurs just after "freeing unused kernel memory" message, which is followed by "SMP" alone on a line. Hardware isn't SMP... I don't see the SMP on mine, and the system which I'm trying to install it upon doesn't support SMP as yet (see below).

We only use SMP kernels now (see my announcement ;-) - and those should work on single CPUs as well. If not, please file a bug report, so that we can investigate. Please try the other boot options as well,

Andreas

Sorry Andreas, I should have made it clear - I realised (from this list) that only SMP kernels are now shipped, it seems that's probably the cause of this problem. I tried net boot (mini ISO) and CD1, both with all 3 of "default" install, "safe settings" and [net boot only] NFS server details pre-set using F4. Same symptoms each time. I did file a bug report, as did David -- Regards Richard --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

David Bolt writes:

On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Andreas Jaeger wrote:-

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David Bolt writes:

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I don't see the SMP on mine, and the system which I'm trying to install it upon doesn't support SMP as yet (see below).

We only use SMP kernels now (see my announcement ;-) - and those should work on single CPUs as well.

The system I've tried to install it upon is a Parallels virtual machine which is running under Windows on a dual Athlon system. At present Parallels only supports a single processor and that is what was seen on alpha2, the last alpha that would install on a Parallels VM.

This should not be a problem. The SMP kernel should run on any UP system. Two explanations: Parallels is broken or the SMP kernel has a bug, ;-) Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

On Sun, 10 Sep 2006, David Bolt wrote:- Oops, made a typo in the URL :| The screenshot is really at: URL:http://www.davjam.org/~davjam/images/parallels_10.2alpha4-2.gif Regards, David Bolt -- Member of Team Acorn checking nodes at 50 Mnodes/s: http://www.distributed.net/ AMD1800 1Gb WinXP/SUSE 9.3 | AMD2400 256Mb SuSE 9.0 | A3010 4Mb RISCOS 3.11 AMD2400(32) 768Mb SUSE 10.0 | Falcon 14Mb TOS 4.02 | A4000 4Mb RISCOS 3.11 AMD2600(64) 512Mb SUSE 10.0 | | RPC600 129Mb RISCOS 3.6 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

On Sun, 10 Sep 2006, Richard wrote:-

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URL:http://www.davjam.org/~davjam/images/parallels_10.2alpha4-2.gif

Is this the same image that you referenced in your mail of 7 September?

No, that one was: URL:http://www.davjam.org/~davjam/images/parallels_10.2alpha4.gif All I did was to add "vga=0x317", to get a larger screenshot, and "maxcpus=1", to force a single CPU, to the kernel options before it booted.

Either way, it is almost identical to what I get - the only differences that I can spot are that the "tsc clocksource" is prefixed by ACPI details & I don't have the "tainted" flag set.

That's something that's interested me as well. I can't figure out why it should be tainted since I haven't included any modules. Unfortunately, with it failing where it does, I can't see just what modules are being included by default.

That's on a K6-2/500 with 512M RAM FWIW (no virtual systems!)

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On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Andreas Jaeger wrote:-

David Bolt writes:

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URL:http://www.davjam.org/~davjam/images/parallels_10.2alpha4-2.gif

Please add it to bugzilla,

Done. I've added it to bug #202605. Regards, David Bolt -- Member of Team Acorn checking nodes at 50 Mnodes/s: http://www.distributed.net/ AMD1800 1Gb WinXP/SUSE 9.3 | AMD2400 256Mb SuSE 9.0 | A3010 4Mb RISCOS 3.11 AMD2400(32) 768Mb SUSE 10.0 | Falcon 14Mb TOS 4.02 | A4000 4Mb RISCOS 3.11 AMD2600(64) 512Mb SUSE 10.0 | | RPC600 129Mb RISCOS 3.6 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

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