Hi Roy,
I see that you tried the noprobe option, which often get's by several
problems. For a complete list of options, they are listed at
https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/4x/installing/bootup.html
The one's most common, that arn't on the boot screens are
noapic, apic, apm=off, nofb
But it's possible that it's a bad CD. To test that, one thing to do is
to put it in another machine (preferably something with a different
motherboard) and see if you still get a kernel panic.
Usually with bad CD's, it doesn't even get past the 'loading...' stages,
but it does sometimes fail on a kernel panic.
The problem with CD's is that high priced name brands, can still have
really poor quality CD's.
Troy
Roy Jensen wrote:
> All
>
> I am a Linux novice but very familiar with Win OS.
>
> I tried to install SL 4.2 on a Gateway M675 notebook but failed (see
> below). I was able to install Mandriva 2006, but would like to get SL
> installed.
>
> Computer specs
>
> Processor: Pentium™ 4 CPU, 3.2 GHz
> Core logic: Intel 865PE, ICH5
> Phoenix BIOS, SMBIOS 2.3 support
> RAM: 512 MB
> Video: ATI M11-P, 64 MB DDR-SDRAM
>
> Complete computer specs at
> http://support.gateway.com/s/Mobile/Gateway/M675/3501731sp75.shtml
>
> Installation fails during the initial system check after pressing
> Enter (or 'Linux noprobe' and all other variants). The last few lines
> are
> [<c02a7c55>] cpufreq_register_driver+0x14b/0x271
> [<c03b8714>] do_initcalls+0x49/0x8a
> [<c010043c>] init+0x0/0x1d8
> [<c01004e8>] init+0xac/0x1d8
> [<c01041d9>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb
> Code: (three lines of hex)
> <0>Fatal exception: panic in 5 seconds
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
> and then it hangs.
>
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Dr. Roy Jensen
> (==========)-----------------------------------------¤
> Chemistry, Grant MacEwan College
> Edmonton, AB T5J 4S2
> 780.633.3915
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