Panic on 5.4, 1 second uptime

[Gavin Atkinson]

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Norberto Meijome wrote:

> ( This is an exact copy of my post to -questions)
> Hi all,
> I am trying to install 5.4 on a box that's been running Linux. It's a 2 year 
> old 'Snap Appliance 4500' ( 
> http://www.snapappliance.com/page.cfm?name=4500Main&nav=4500 ), with 4 x 120 
> GB EIDE, P4, 512 Mb.
>
> As soon as I try to load the kernel I get :
> --- (copied by hand )
> Fatal trap 10: trace trap while in vm86 mode
> instruction pointer = 0xf000:0xf842
> stack pointer        = 0x0:0xff8
> frame pointer       = 0x0:0x0
> code segment      = base 0x330026, limit 0x1, type 0x9
>                         = DPL 3, pres 1 def32 0, fram 0
> processor eflags  = interrupt enabled, vm86, IOPL=0
> current process   = 0 ()
> trap number        = 10
> panic : trace trap
> uptime : 1 s
> -------------
>
> Every time, the same pointers / segments. This happens right after the kernel 
> memory addresses (data? segment? pls excuse my ignorance) show after pressing 
> an option in the boot menu.

Can you boot in verbose mode and try and get a few of the lines before the 
lines you quoted?  Knowing roughly where in the boot process this happens 
will probably greatly help.

Gavin