New installation of RHEL 9.0: Kernel Panic Fatal Exception
Did a clean installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 (no errors on the install medium) on a Lenovo ThinkPad T410 from 2010 (Intel Core i5 M 520, 6 GB RAM).
On first startup it freezes and the Caps Lock light starts blinking. Pressing Esc at the boot screen before it freezes reveals a kernel panic (see attached picture).
The call trace mentions "iwlwifi" but even with wireless turned off it still crashes. At the installer, the Intel wi-fi worked perfectly.
Starting in Rescue mode behaves exactly the same way.
What is wrong and what can be done to have this OS start up? RHEL 8.6 works fine on this computer.
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Guru
32255 points
Hi All,
Some thoughts : First of all, ORACLE VirtualBox is known for generating unexpected issues. I recommend to use another tool
for virtualization, if even possible. I stumbled upon a discussion on the Community forums that might explain what's going on :
Kernel Panic - CentOS 9 Stream
Especially this comment is interesting -> Something in the Linux kernel that C9 stream is using has changed ...
I think we will have to wait until a new Vbox version (with matching guest additions) that supports RHEL 9.0 will be released.
The latest version is more than two months old. Linux users may want to switch to KVM, everything works out-of-the-box. :)
Regards,
Christian
Just an update on this, today I tried with new Vbox which is latest installed on Ubuntu 21.04 platform (laptop) which worked perfect. I got RHEL9.0 GA installed successfully.
Guru
21034 points
Back to the original person who posted this discussion. for vbox, aka virtualbox questions PLEASE START A NEW DISCUSSION
This discussion was started by great name pick of "Hugh Mungus" (wow, fantastic alias name for the discussion forums)
"Hugh" mentioned he is interested in loading RHEL 9 on a Lenovo ThinkPad T410 from 2010 (Intel Core i5 M 520, 6 GB RAM).
I do see a ThinkPad T420 listed on Lenovo acceptable hardware for RHEL 9, but not a T410 at this compatibility link
"Hugh" -- I recommend attempting installing this on a more current system than a T410, based on the link above.
Kindly,
RJ
Guru
21034 points
Anyone landing here, please see the hardware compatibility link I provided above, AND for virtualbox, that is a separate matter, and I posted a question on Virtual Box's forums and I'm not sure if there will be a response soon or not.
Kindly,
RJ
Guru
32255 points
Hi RJ,
The link you provided requires being logged into an account.
You may want to edit the link, so that customers can read it :
https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=106237
Cheers :)
Christian
I have a Lenovo T510. I have the same kernel panic error. Apparently my laptop is also too old and I also need a newer computer to use rhel9. I thought only Microsoft pulled this on their customers. No worries. I will use Debian instead where I am able to use "older" hardware to still have a good experience, in accord with the design of Linux. I wish MicroHat luck with their future plans. With this latest "upgrade" the platform has been ruined.