FC4 Kernel Panic IDE Not Syncing

pointy · 11-18-2005, 02:17 PM

Hello.

I just installed FC4, and at boot time I get the following kernel panic:

Kernel Panic not syncing: drives/ide/pci/piix.c:232: spin_lock(drivers/ide/ide.c:c03eb708) already locked by drivers/ide/ide-iops.c/1235. (not tainted)
BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!

I am running on a GigaByte GA-6CX MoBo with a PIII in it. No RAID, booting from drive connected to onboard IDE.

Any Ideas?

Finlay · 11-18-2005, 03:37 PM

can you show the output of everything up to that point?

looks like two conflicting ide drivers are trying to run the same drive

pointy · 11-18-2005, 05:20 PM

Please forgive my ignorance, but I don't know how. How would I capture that output?

Finlay · 11-18-2005, 05:37 PM

not sure there is a way to capture it
what is the line or two above it

caos_2004 · 11-27-2005, 09:30 PM

I was getting the same message, but during the installation...
What I did was to burn again only the first CD... AND wrote in the text installation mode "linux ide=nodma".

Maybe it will help you.

Good luck!

pointy · 11-28-2005, 03:29 AM

The ide=nodma option took care of it. Thanks!

dtvjho · 12-21-2005, 12:43 PM

I ran into the same kernel panic as reported earlier, while installing FC4 onto a x86 box with a quartet of IDE devices. Two of these were hard disks, one a 4Gb unit and the other 20GB.

Using ide=nodma option solved my problem too.

xprezons · 01-21-2006, 03:42 PM

Same here. ide=nodma worked for my FC4 install. Thanks!