Kernel Panic With Kernel 2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686

[Richard Huelbig]

Hello All,

I recently downloaded the ISOs for Fedora 9 and installed them on a Windows XP Pro, SP3 machine, in a Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 virtual machine.

I added the "noreplace-paravirt" statements to the commands as listed in the document at: http://blogs.technet.com/seanearp/ar...l-pc-2007.aspx, and everything worked very well. No problems. The kernel installed was 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.

Now, after I completed the install and everything seemed to work fine with the 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 kernel, the auto-update started. Many updates downloaded and installed, seemingly properly. GRUB then displayed, in addition to the original kernel, the new kernel 2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686.

However, now, if I select the new kernel (2.6.26...), whether or not I use "noreplace-paravirt", the system starts to boot, freezes, and displays "Kernel panic--not synching: Attempted to kill the idle task!".

If, from GRUB, I select the original, older kernel (2.6.25...), the boot process completes properly and Fedora loads just fine.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Why does the new kernel not work? What can I do to resolve this?

Regards,

Richard Huelbig

[quantumburnz]

Hi Richard,
I know this is for Ubuntu but check out this tutorial. It sounds like when your kernel updated, it didn't get passed the "noreplace-paravirt" like when you did the original install. Good luck.

[simonhp]

Hi Richard,

I have found the same. All kernels after 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 fail to boot.

Has anyone managed to get a Fedora 9 distro to boot under a newer kernel on MS Virtual PC 2007

Thanks

[pcunite]

I need a fix for this as well. Fedora 9 and Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 SP2.

[pcunite]

I found the answer. The following works for me:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26.6-49.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet vga=771 i8042.noloop noreplace-paravirt

[simonhp]

Hi,

I have just upgraded to he latest kernel release on F9 and it is working in VPC. The version that works for me is 2.6.27.7-53.fc9.i686