FC2 Kernel Panic fatal exception in interrupt
 

I've been running Fedora Core 1 without difficulty. On doing a fresh install (not an upgrade) of Fedora Core 2 final version, the install completes normally, but Linux will not boot.

The boot process starts normally and enters interactive startup, mounts root as read-write, and then the system freezes for about two minutes, before producing the following error:

<0>Kernel Panic: Fatal exception in interrupt
In interrupt handler - not syncing

The system:

Asus P4PE motherboard with P4 2.4-Ghz and 512 MB RAM, nVidia FX-5600 256MB AGP graphics.

I have also posted this in Bugzilla but wanted to post here as well in case anyone has further info or is encountering the same problem.

Thanks.

--James

Supplemental info; here is the panic screen. Also, I am able to boot from the rescue CD, and I tried turning kudzu off, which made no difference.

-------screen starts here---------

Process swapper (pid: 0,threadinfo=02344000 task=022c5aa0)

Stack: a037a234 0237a234 00000080 00008000 021ffb53 0000eab0 021ff9f6 00000000
00000000 0237a234 00126400 00000000 02200f86 21de0e00 03573a78 03573a78
0237a234 00126400 00000000 021f54a6 00126400 00000000 0000000f 03573a78

Call Trace:
[<021ffb53>] cdrom_start_packet_command+0x110/0x134
[<021ff9f6>] cdrom_timer_expiry+0x0/0x4d
[<02200f86>] ide_do_rw_cdrom+0xe3/0x14f
[<021f54a6>] start_request+0x198/0x169
[<021f571e>] ide_do_request+0x23d/0x278
[<021f5972>] ide_timer_expiry+0x152/0x15e
[<021f5820>] ide_timer_expiry+0x0/0x15e
[<0211de03>] run_timer_softirq+0x106/0x12a
[<0211afbd>] __do_softirq+0x35/0x73
-------------------------
-------------------------
[<0210737b>] do_IRQ+0x15d/0x169
[<0210403b>] default_idle+0x23/0x26
[<0210408c>] cpu_idle+0x1f/0x34
[<02318612>] start_kernel+0x174/0x176

Code: 0f 0b eb 03 59 73 2a 02 89 0a 86 44 24 18 89 82 e4 00 00 00
<0>Kernel panic: Fatal exception in interrupt
In interrupt handler - not syncing

Same problem....
 

I'm having the same problem, any solution to this?

Check out the fedora-lists... there's a bug dealing with asus mobos and a workaround...

Actually, not sure it's an ASUS mobo, it's an older HP workstation. Could you send me a link to that bug? thnx

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/

you're going to have to search through these but it was May or June if I remember correctly...

I am getting the exact same painc screen trying to install Fedora on an older IBM machine that already has an older Red Hat install working. I couldn't find anything searching the lists, anyone solve this yet?