Kernel Panic - Out of Memory

[JereC42]

a FC4 ,
On local scsi drive (kernel 2.6.14), rescue disk OR install disk (kernel 2.6.11), I get past GRUB get "Loading kernel....... Loading initrd........" and then "Ok booting kernel" Immediately I get crashes. Most of the time they say "Kernel Panic Out of memory" no more processes to kill. Also once i saw not syncing - trying to kill init.

I have passed several of the options to the kernel from GRUB or from the installer like "mem=256M", nofb, noprobe, rescue, text, etc. I am getting no where with this thing. Does anyone know what would cause these immediate errors?

I am running a P4 1.8Ghz on a Abit BE7 board with 256MB pc3200 400Mhz ram

Thanks in advance!

[borgi2008]

Hello,

perhaps your RAM is broken i had problems like these by a friend of mine. Have u tried to enter some trash when you see the fedora logo of the boot cd/dvd and then press enter. it was an bug in Fedora that you have to enter something like "hello" before entering "linux rescue" or "linux"

Borgi2008

[JereC42]

Thank you. The RAM works well in another newer motherboard/cpu combo. I have ordered some new memory from crucial that is "guarenteed" to work with my motherboard, we will see how that goes.