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sweisman

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Registered: 2008-05-20

Posts: 42

kernel panic when booting arch install disk on thinkpad i1400

Hello,

I have a VERY old Thinkpad i1400 sitting around I figured I would set up for my kids. This is a Celeron 366 that currently has 96MB (will upgrade to 256MB once I confirm I can use the thing), a 20GB hard drive, and working bootable CDROM, with a PCMCIA network card (3Com 3C589D).

I successfully installed Arch on it many years ago (back in the 2.4 kernel days) and it was so old I couldn't do a pacman -Syu on it and now that installation is hosed. So I am trying to install from scratch.

I downloaded the latest FTP install ISO. I boot it and the kernel panics with this final message:

[<c0461417>] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x1df
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Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!

I did some searching and found this old exchange on the Forum:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=14175

I tried the suggestions (various combinations of apm=off, acpi=off, dma=off) and none of them worked.

Please note that the panic message in that topic is different than what I am getting.

This machine boots fine with Puppy (2.6 kernel, but no PCMCIA) and DSL (2.4 kernel, everything works fine).

I want to use Arch! I know it, it's lightweight, and is a better fit than Puppy or DSL.

Does anyone have any suggestion?

k.mandla

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From: Japan

Registered: 2006-05-16

Posts: 86

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Re: kernel panic when booting arch install disk on thinkpad i1400

I get the same error on a Thinkpad A21e (750Mhz Celeron, 128Mb PC100) but not on a Thinkpad 1100-iSeries (550Mhz Celeron, 192Mb). Ubuntu, Crux and a couple of other distros all work fine on it. Suggestions would be welcome.

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