Kernel panic: Fatal exception in interrupt

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 23:02, Jon Ingason wrote:
> I am trying to install Feodora 2 from CD I loaded from Internet
> and burn on CD. The MD5 sum for the iso file is correct.
> 
> The problem is that I get Call Trace with Kernel panic:
> The display show following:
> 
> ...
> .
> .
> mouting /tmp as ramfs... done
> running install...
> running /sbin/loader
> .
> .
> .
> Call Trace:
> [...
> .
> .
> .
> <0> Kernel panic: Fatal exception in interrupt
> In interrupt handler - not syncing
> 
> The computer I am trying to install FC 2 on has RedHat 8 instalation
> which runs OK on this platform. My question is what is the problem?

Looks like Bug #115458
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115458

Unfortunately there doesn't appear to be a fix or workaround for it yet.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>