install on virtual pc fails almost immediately

[bmyers]

I had good luck running Fedora core 1 under Virtual PC. It installed very well.

I tried to install core 2. I used the graphical install and pressed Enter without adding any special options. Some data scrolled off the screen too fast for me to capture it all, but here's the last screenful. Does it mean anything to any of you?

apm: overridden by ACPI.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1084995019.304:0): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
invalid operand: 0000 [#1]
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<c01040c2>] Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00000286 (2.6.5-1.358)
EIP is at mwait_idle+0x23/0x40
eax: c031f008 ebx: c031f000 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000
esi: 00039100 edi: c034e7a0 ebp: 003b2007 esp: c031ffec
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo=c031f000 task=c02cdaa0)
Stack: 00020800 c010408a c03205fe c034e7c0 c010019f
Call Trace:
[<c010408a>] cpu_idle+0x1d/0x32
[<c03205fe>] start_kernel+0x174/0x176

Code: 0f 01 c8 8b 43 08 a8 08 75 0c 89 c8 0f 01 c9 8b 43 08 a8 08
<0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
In idle task - not syncing

[dark_moonstone]

I'm getting something almost identical when trying to install FC 3 (with the exception that the error also says 'not syncing'). Were you ever able to find a fix?

The intall disks I'm using are good. I was able to install Fedora fine on my old Pentium II machine (with lots of tweaking to get X running) using the same disks. I've tried passing some parameters to the kernel, as suggested at a couple of forums, to no avail. I've increased the RAM for the virtual machine, and changed the CD-ROM drive settings. I'm not even getting a different error with anything that I've tried.

I'd really like to install Fedora, but it's starting to look like one of the other Linux flavors would install more smoothly. Any help at all is greatly appreciated.

Best Regards

[fcn00b]

You need to speak to Microsoft who make Virtual PC. I recall hearing that MS do not support any version of Linux (correct me if I'm wrong) on Virtual PC so you are between a rock and a hard place.

Instead of old versions of fedora, why not the latest core?

[dark_moonstone]

MS doesn't support anything but their own stuff (and I'll refrain from spewing my personal negative opinion on the subject). I know it can be done because I've used VM's in school labs with Linux OS's. Thanks for your feedback, though.

As for the latest release, considering it took me a week to get all of the images for core 3 downloaded and burned (not solely working on JUST that, thank gods), I'll just stick with this version. It sounds like a newer version won't rectify this issue, anyway.

Thanks for your quick reply, fcn00b. I'm trying a few more things with Fedora, then I may give up and change projects. If I get it to work, I'll post. Have a great one! :)