Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 installation fails on IBM P750 (ppc64) machine
Issue
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The installation panics before anaconda loads with a ramdisk uncompression error :
Initializing XFRM netlink socket NET: Registered protocol family 17 registered taskstats version 1 rtc-generic rtc-generic: setting system clock to 2010-12-22 23:04:21 UTC (12930) Initalizing network drop monitor service md: Waiting for all devices to be available before autodetect md: If you don't use raid, use raid=noautodetect md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: Scanned 0 and added 0 devices. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. RAMDISK: gzip image found at block 0 RAMDISK: EOF while reading compressed data uncompression error List of all partitions: No filesystem could mount root, tried: iso9660 Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0) Call Trace: [c000000ed5ddfc30] [c000000000012d84] .show_stack+0x74/0x1c0 (unreliable) [c000000ed5ddfce0] [c000000000582b50] .panic+0x80/0x1a8 [c000000ed5ddfd70] [c0000000007f14c8] .mount_block_root+0x2e8/0x324 [c000000ed5ddfe50] [c0000000007f1750] .prepare_namespace+0x1c4/0x218 [c000000ed5ddfee0] [c0000000007f0520] .kernel_init+0x2f4/0x320 [c000000ed5ddff90] [c000000000031b14] .kernel_thread+0x54/0x70 Rebooting in 180 seconds..
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0
- IBM P750
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