YDL 3.0 Install Kernel Panic early into GUI installer.

[David Orlovich]

long shot - is it possibly bad RAM?

David.



On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 11:52 AM, Andres Leson wrote:

> I'm trying to install YDL 3.0 on a dual USB iBook.  I
> had YDL 2.2 but re-installed Mac OS X and re-partioned
> (one MAC OS extended and the other free) for a clean
> install.
>
> When I booted up the YDL 3.0 install CD and used the
> default graphical installer I got a kernel panic.  It
> started with:
>
> radoonfb: ATI Radeon M6 LYnDDR SGRAM 16M
>      <0> Rebooting in 180 seconds ... connected
>
> ..... (then a little later...)
>
> Probing IDE interface ide0
> hda: Enabling Ultra DMA 2
> .....
> hdb: Enabling Multiword DMA 2
> Machine check in kernel mode
> Caused by (from SRRI = 49030) transfer error ack
> signal
> Oops: machine check, sig 7
> ....
> Call back trace.....
> ....
> Kernel panic, Aiee, killing interrupt handler
> in interrupt handler, not syncing!
>      <0> Rebooting in 180 seconds....
>
>
> And then it hangs here for a reboot.  Has anyone run
> into this problem?  Any help would be greatly
> appreciated!
>
> Thanks.
>
> Andy
>
> P.S. I also tried to use the install-safe text mode
> and everythings seems to go fine until the package
> installation portion and then it always crash with the
> following message:
>
> installer exited abnormally -- sig 9 received ....
> unmount /tmp...... and it hangs.
>
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Dr David Orlovich
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