On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 04:14:55AM -0500, Marcus Booth wrote: > With good advice supplied earlier, I was able to get my install booting on > an intel dual core after some of you > suggested disabling ichiic. While struggling (prior to the advice) with > that, I installed on a quad core with Gigabyte mobo and had > no problems at all. AFter the succesful boot on the dual core I tried to > enable softraid and rebuilt the kernel. That yielded a kernel panic so > I reverted to the old kernel. Would the gigabyte mobo possibly solve the > ichiic problem as well as the kernel panic issues? > Thanks, > Marcus Booth >
Hard to tell without seeing the trace from the panic. As far as I can see softraid was enabled by default in GENERIC in November of 2007, so it's also unclear what you mean by 'enable softraid and rebuilt the kernel'. .... Ken