Bug#305486: Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the iddle task!

[Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl>]

On Wednesday 20 April 2005 11:52, Sergio wrote:
> I have tried to boot directly from boot prompt, and using _linux26_
> parameter, and both of them end up in the same situation: "Kernel
> panic: Attempted to kill the iddle task".

Have you tried booting with parameters like:
- noapic, nolapic
- acpi=off

Also, you only give the error messages. To be able to judge in what stage 
of the boot things go wrong, you should also include the last 10 or so 
lines of "normal" messages.

Cheers,
FJP