[plug] Que? Kernel panics during install?

[Sol]

>What about the log consoles? What do they say?
Nothing. They weren't available when the kernel panicked. I just got keyboard 
blinkenlights. :-(

> It could be the ACPI problem which occasionally makes life difficult on
> certain machines. Do a search for "ACPI" in the SuSE support database, or
> have a look here for general guidance and a list of options:
I'll keep this in mind when I try again in a couple of hours. I did try 
installing with "Safe Settings" which meant nodma, nopcmcia and some other 
stuff that i don't remember. But I'll check the SuSE support db on this 
matter and see how it goes.

Thanks Derek and Binh for your replies! :-)

cheers; sol


On Wednesday 16 July 2003 18:47, Derek Fountain wrote:
> > Today I tried installing Suse 8.2 on a P4 2.4/1024/40 server. All would
> > be just swell until it came to between 11% and 25% the way through the
> > install and then there would be a kernel panic and things wouldn't go any
> > further. I tried a variety of install packages from a custom selection to
> > minimal (no gui) selection always with the same result (actually, tell a
> > lie, on the first occasion it spat the dummy when it came across a dodgy
> > "terminfo" package and I tried to reinstall it). I don't know how to
> > debug this and was wondering if anyone had come across such strange
> > behaviour.
>
> It could be the ACPI problem which occasionally makes life difficult on
> certain machines. Do a search for "ACPI" in the SuSE support database, or
> have a look here for general guidance and a list of options:
>
> http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/81_acpi.html

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