hi,

i installed fedore core 5 linux in my laptop. i was pretty surprised it installed with so ease. but now im unable to log into fedora linux.

i am hung in this step of the linux boot

"kernal panic - not syncing:attempted to kill init!" and gives
panic<blah blah>,
do_exit<blah blah>,
do_munmap<blah blah>,
sys_exit_group<blah blah>,
syscall_call<blah blah>


PLEASE HELP ME OUT PEOPLE !!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks

Have you tried disabling the power saving option in your BIOS, Upgrading the BIOS and you could also try to disable any Power managment option in the kernel at boot e.g.
apm=off
acpi=off

First Update the BIOS and then try the boot options...

i tried setting apm=off and acpi=off in the boot command but still hangs at that step. im using 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 kernel

pls suggest.

thanks

i tried to go in rescue mode and gave the options,

chroot /mnt/sysimage
mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.15-1.2054.img

but still it hangs at that position. also i found one thing in the booting steps.

it says not "no fstab.sys found, switching to defaults". this step comes before "kernal panic - not syncing:attempted to kill init!"

is there some problem in that ??

thanks

If it does not find the fstab.sys then it probably won't be able to mount any system mounts...this would cause a problem yes. what can be done to fix it? I honestly do not know
It might be something with the HDD controler but this is just a wild guess.

any one else?

It's hard to say that it could be a hardware problem... anyway, try to install from begining, remove all linux native partition from your hdd, and create them again. I suppose that you have vfat partitions on your hdd, and should save them.... if not, it is simple. But if you can read in the boot detection what anaconda installer detects from configuration, there should appear the problem marked with red, if it is one. This kind of problem I meet when I installed FC4 on another system and nobody guessed that there was an AGP conflict in that laptop, and because of that, after install has finished, on re-boot all system hunged with "kernel panik"... That was the weirdest laptop I had to configure ever! Hope you'll find somthig helpful hints meanwhile, but first, try just to re-install the system, and just take a bit more care on partitioning CHEERS!

hi i tried to do complete install fc5 this time, rather than upgrade fedora core. so it installed fine and also i was able to login into fedora !!. now things look fine !!!!

now i have another problem. i have few setup files like realplayer and firefox browser setups. i want to install it. but when i double click those .bin and .sh files its not installing. how shud i install those setups.

pls help me .

thanks

Thats quite easy.

You just need to open up a terminal and then (if you want it for all users) as root go to the folder that has the install files .bin and .sh.
Then all you need to do is make sure that they are executable using
and then when thats done just do a for the .bin (will probably also work for the .sh) but if it does not work for the .sh just do a Thats it they should start. Just follow te on screen instructions and tada your done.

Cheers

hi i tried to talk to my ISP and they said that i need not connect to their server with the username and password and that i can directly browse website in my linux. but what happens is that for first 10-15 seconds i can browse the websites. after that im not able to browse webpages. it says page not found.

when i did some investigation what happens is that the /etc/resolv.conf file in which i have set the DNS server settings is getting changed to some ip 10.0.0.1

so when the resolve.conf file is changed to 10.0.0.1 im not able to browse any webpages. so when i edit this to the DNS server settings which my ISP has given im able to browse webpages, again only for 10-15 seconds.

why do i get this problem. ?

any suggestions please ?

thanks

not sure what you are gettingata but it sound like the dhcp is changing the dns servers that you use.
I.e. you are getting a new lease after a short time and it changes your settings.

You can manually add many dns servers.

Click- System->Administrtion->Network
enter password
Then under the DNS tab you can add secondary and tertiary dns servers.

That should hold even if DHCP give another.
So if the first does not work it will try the next one.

Cheers