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Kernel Panic when installing Ubuntu 64-Bit

Asked by Joseph Myers

I am trying to install Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit on a system with a ASUS P5Q SE2 motherboard with a Q9300 Intel Core 2 Quad processor.

I have tried various things like trying to use an older graphics card but I always get the same result, Kernel Panic, or the CAPS lock and SCROLL lock blinking.

When I select the option

"Try Ubuntu without any change to your computer"

I almost immediately get a dump telling me that

Kernel Panic not syncing - Attempted to kill Init!

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Should I use the text base installer to find out where the installer is hanging up, or should I get a newer board that perhaps there would not be hardware conflict with?

Thanks,

Joe

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#1

32 bit is more stable release and has been field-tested more. I have 64bit chips too but Ubuntu 8.10 or 8.04 as 32 bit rather than 64 bit works sooo much better. I didn't get the kernel panic tho, although i have had that before with other distros.

Good luck with this
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Tom

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Joseph Myers (myersj101) said : 		#2

Tom,

I have some news on this. I went back to the computer store and bought another motherboard. This one is an MSI motherboard rather than an ASUS.

Guess what I put the board in hooked everything up and walla, it worked!

That does not sound so amazing but here is the rest of the story.

I initially had an ASUS board with an AMD Phenom X4 (64-bit) processor in it which I installed Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit on. It worked great, until I tried to use VmWare to run the virtual machines that I use for work. I kept getting errors telling me that I should re-activate Windows in the virtual machines that I was running.

As I did some more research I found out that Windows has some anti-pirate software which is triggered when Windows detects that its running on a different CPU architecture, like the difference between AMD and Intel. This was happening to me because I was attempting to run a virtual machine that was created on Windows using an Intel CPU, on an AMD CPU.

So I decided to return the AMD chip and board and get an Intel based board so I could run my virtual machines on it without Windows telling me I had to re-activate it.

I took the mother board back and got an Intel Based mother board and a Q9300 Intel CPU. To my dismay I found that when I hooked everything up and tried to run the installer to re-install Ubuntu that I got the kernel panic message no matter what I did.

I just went back to the store and got another motherboard that supports the Intel Q9300 chipset. I put this into my case added the Q9300 CPU and hooked up the hard drive that already had Ubuntu 64-bit installed on it. I turned on the machine and it booted up without any problems! I thought this was pretty good considering the behavior that I got out of the other board.

So the problem appeared to be the motherboard that I had used was not compatible with the Ubuntu Kernel that is distributed with the 64-bit installable image of Ubuntu.

The Model of the mother board is ASUS P5Q SE2. The CPU is a Q9300 Intel Duo Quad Core.