gosselin_andre

I am trying to install FC4 on an HP DL385 (2 AMD Opteron CPU's + smartarray controller). The install goes smoothly, and all the hardware is correctly recognized. Module cciss is loaded, and disks are seen as /dev/cciss/c0d[012etc] . Grub is correcty installed in the MBR. However, whem I try to boot the machine folowing the install, a kernel panic strikes instantaneously, and errors messages fly by so fast that unfortunately I cannot get the initial error condition. All I am left with is the end of a stack trace. If I boot a rescuecd, I can access my disk partitions, and verify that all appears ok. Does anybody have a clue to help me ? Thanks all.

To Onore: You said you switched to RedHat4 on your DL385. I assume you mean RHEL4 ? RHEL4 is in fact the only distro I was able to install on my DL385. Unfortunately you must purchase a subscription to get at it, and also to get the updates. Above that, it is a bit outdated (no ReiserFS for ex.), and dates back to FC3. I still cannot believe that FC4 (or Mandriva 2006 for that matter) cannot work on that machine, and hope someone will eventually come up with a solution. Cheers