I have a

ASRock P4I45GV R 5.0 motherboard
Intel Celeron D CPU
256 MB DDRRAM
NVIDIA GEFORCE FX 5200 videocard
Samsung SP0208N HDD

and I can't install Fedora Core 5. I get the following error at the beggining of the instalation:

<0> Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
[<c011978e>] panic+0x3e/0x16c
[<c011c09c>] do_exit+0x6a/0x6c2
[<c010461b>] do_trap+0x0/0xae
[<c011488a>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x4cd
[<c0114c09>] do_page_fault+0x37f/0x4cd
[<c0111098>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt +0xe/0x33
[<c011488a>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x4cd
[<c0103c3f>] error_code+0x4f/0x60
[<c0111098>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0xc/0x33
[<c0103b6c>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x1c/0x30
[<c02142dc>] intel_i830_configurare+0xc3/0xd6
[<c021109e>] agp_add_bridge+0x159/0x263
[<c021f838>] __driver_attach+0x0/0x8b
[<c01c9ef3>] pci_device_probe+0x36/0x57
[<c021f785>] driver_probe_device+0x42/0x8b
[<c021f89b>] __driver_attach+0x11/0x13
[<c021f281>] bus_for_each_dev+0x33/0x55
[<c021f6e9>] driver_attach+0x11/0x13
[<c021f838>] __driver_attach+0x0/0x5b
[<c021efa2>] bus_add_driver+0x64/0xfd
[<c01ca082>] __pci_register_driver+0x7f/0xa1
[<c01002e9>] init+0x80/0x1b4
[<c0100269>] init+0x0/0xb4
[<c0101005>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb

The question is: can this problem be fixed? if not, then what distribution will work on my PC?

Is the disc scratched? Try cleaning it off and installing again. If that doesn't fix it maybe one or more of the files on the disc are corrupt.

The disks are 100% good, because it installed on another computer with athlon cpu (it's all i know about that pc). I think that there is a conflict somewhere between the hardware and the kernel.

my problem is little different from yours. i succesfully finished fedora core 5 linux installation. but when i tried to boot into linux the system hangs at the step

'Kernel Panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!'


Linux Geeks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! please also help me. !!!

thanks

for those who have Asrock motherboards, and have the same problem as i did: boot into bios, and in the advanced menu, select the videocard included in the motherboard. And then start Fedora installation in text mode.

To Ravifrequent: try using your internal videocard. If you also have problems, then it could be that your HDD is SATA - type.