In another thread, I was troubleshooting a VM. Once I figured out the tweaking, I decided to install the always-awesome RockStor onto one of my NAS devices. I selected a 4GB USB flash drive for the ISO burning with Etcher, and an 8GB (then a 16GB) USB flash drive for the destination.
Upon boot, I saw the attached kernel panic.
So I have to say, … "Okay, what’d I do wrong?"
Hi @kuerious,
Sorry you’re having trouble installing. I unfortunately cannot help you directly, but while we wait for somebody more knowledgeable to help, I know some methods to prepare the USB installer can prove problematic. In order to rule this first, have you had a look at the corresponding section in Rockstor’s documentation?
http://rockstor.com/docs/quickstart.html#making-a-rockstor-usb-install-disk
and its related: http://rockstor.com/docs/soho.html#usbinstall
Hope this helps,
Thank you, I do appreciate it. I’ll look through both.
Attempted building USB media with:
HW:
SW:
That’s 8 different combinations. At all times I got to the initial install screen. I selected the traditional install (first option). After which, the screen always went gray, then what appeared to be a kernel panic (see above photo of screen).
This is an HP ProLiant MicroServer N36L with 8GB ECC RAM. I did also use the onboard Memtest86 to test the RAM. No problems.
What on earth could be failing here? I’ve read:
I even went into the BIOS, did a “Load Optimum Defaults”, rebooted, back into BIOS, verified boot order, saved, booted … nada. Nada nada nah-t a flipping thing.
Ain’t nothing happening except a gray screen (occasionally with “Fast TSC calibration failed” at the top) then kernel panic, then nada.
WHAT AM I DOING WRONG!!?
Some people have had luck installing from the next oldest available ISO (3.8.16?)
I did when installing on my Ryzen board, might be worth a shot.
Hi @kuerious,
It looks like you’re affected by a really old Kernel bug that affects AMD systems.
Can you try the workaround at the bottom of: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/6402/updates-broke-centos-can-i-fix-it/2 when you boot.
Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles …
I’m going to finish the install and fix grub, as the article says. If all is well, I’ll close this out.
Awesome troubleshooting, dude 
Well, slather me in hot sauce & call me the devil …
Now to plug in the RAID card (for SATA III, the board only does SATA II; no RAID) and a USB 3.0 PCIe card.
