[NTLUG:Discuss] RH9 - Panic on install

[Paul Drew]

Have you checked to see if there are any firmare upgrades and updates for 
the board or raid controller? I am a huge fan of SOYO, but I have found some 
issues if I don't get it updated. I have had a few problems with them but I 
was always able to get them in good working order with a little research, 
and elbow grease. I am running a Soyo Dragon Plus! with Redhat 7.2 and a 7.3 
kernel to support NTFS with no problems at all with regards to the 
motherboard itself. I have the raid enabled currently, but I don't have any 
arrays defined. Good Luck with it though.

Paul Drew









>From: Johnie Stafford <jms at pobox.com>
>Reply-To: jms at pobox.com, NTLUG Discussion List <discuss at ntlug.org>
>To: NTLUG Discussion List <discuss at ntlug.org>
>Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] RH9 - Panic on install
>Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 17:06:56 -0500
>
> >>> On Sat, 26 Apr 2003 23:00:23 -0500, Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> said:
>
>  cc> Johnie Stafford wrote:
>  cc> ...snip...
>  >> So after working for a week to get it past POST, I'm trying to
>  >> install. I've been using RH since 2.0 so it was my first inclination,
>  >> so I picked up RH9 to try out the spiffy new version with my spiffy
>  >> new 'puter. Right after the boot prompt when it starts to load the
>  >> install kernel
>  >> I get a panic. The string is "Panic: Trying to kill init" or something
>  >> close to that. I also get flashing Caps Lock and Scroll Lock lights on
>  >> my PS/2 keyboard, The USB keyboard doesn't do that.
>  >>
>  cc> ...snip...
>  >> Has anybody seen this or have any idea which direction I might look?
>
>  cc> Not sure which kernel options RH supports, but I'd try disableapic
>  cc> (if they support that one).
>
>  cc> Specifically if this is a Athlon board, you might need mem=nopentium
>  cc> if you have an AGP graphics card (this problem I think is fixed in
>  cc> 2.4.20 or in future 2.4.21).
>
>  cc> I don't thing RH does acpi, but if it does, you can try disabling
>  cc> that as well (probably acpi=off).
>
>
>OK, I've found the source of the problem, but haven't a clue what to
>do about it. It's the onboard raid controller on the latest
>motherboard. It is a High Point HPT372. When I went into the bios and
>disabled the onboard RAID I was able to boot and install.
>
>I'd really like to use the hardware raid, but I would give that up if
>I can just use the controller without the raid. But even if I have the
>RAID disabled (it just presents the 2 drives), the machine panics.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Johnie
>
>
>
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