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ajaychebbi
October 2nd, 2009, 02:06 AM
INstalling on a old Compaq DEskpro. right off the bat got a big screen dump with "kernel panic not syncing attempted to kill the idle task". Funnily swapping the memory modules got it going..

see: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-distributions-5/kernel-panic-not-syncing-attempted-to-kill-idle-task-347997/