Fedora 7 Kernel Panic During Installation

[danafaye]

I'm new to linux and attempting to install Fedora 7 (dual with XP). I partitioned the HD 20Gigs for XP &
40Gigs for linux.

I have searched online, but have found anyone posting this problem - please help.

Here are the steps I have followed:
- boot from Fedora 7 ISO DVD
- test DVD (it passes)
- see that the video card is recognized
- get welcome to fedora screen (choose ok)
- choose installation language and keyboard language
- get partition menu - choose use freespace on selected drives to create default layout
- review parition layout (looks correct to me)
- configure eth0 and eth1 for dynamic ipv4 not active at startup
- crash to blue screen with error message on screen (shown below)

I photographed the error message and have attempted to retype it here:
// begin
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060[<c0406643.] Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010097 (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 #1)
EIP is at dump_trace+0x5c/0x93
eax: 78343ffd ebx: 78343025 ecx: 00019790 edx: 08cbe000
esi: 00000000 edi: 78343000 ebp: c068027a esp: df936f20
ds: 00fb es: 007b fs 00d8 gs: 0000 ss: 0068
Process kacpid (pid: 43, ti:df936000 task=df92ecf0 task.ti=df937000)
Stack: c0424640 c0680271 00000018 00000000 c0680271 c0406692 60cdba0 c060027a
df9370cf c0406741 c068027a c068027a df937034 df93706c 0000082 00010097
df937034 0000002b c0406901 c068027a 00000010 df92ee04 000002b df936000
Call Trace:
[<c0424640>] printk+0x1f/0x92
[<c0406692>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x18/0x2c
[<c0406741>] show_stack_log_lvl+0x9b/0xa3
[<c0406901>] show_registers+0x1b8/0x27e
[<c0406af0>] die+0x129/0x23b
[<c05fbdd5>] do_page_fault+0x41b/0x4fd
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address b1cf7622
printing eip:
c0406643
*pde = 00000000
Recursive die() failture, output suppressed
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
// end

As for my system it is a gateway notebook, Pentium 4, 2.5Ghz, 512 ram.

Any help would be greatly appreciated (please let me know if you require any additional information). Thanks in advance.

[jim]

try adding noacpi to the boot screen

[danafaye]

didn't work ... still get the same error message.