Kernel Panic, Fedora Core 2, Virtual PC

[David Sanders]

Trying to install Fedora Core 2 on Virtual PC (using Dell Dimension 4600 with 
2.8 GHz with HT, 1 GB or RAM.) it crashes right after typing 'linux text'.
 
 Here is what's left on the screen:
 
 apm: overridden by ACPI.
 audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
 audit(1093558315.547:0): initialized
 Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
 VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
 SELinux:  Registering netfilter hooks
 invalid operand: 0000 [#1]
 CPU:    0
  
 EIP:    0060:[<c01040c2>]    Not tainted
 EFLAGS: 00000286   (2.6.5-1.358)
 EIP is at mwait_idle+0x23/0x40
 eax: c031f008   ebx: c031f000   ecx: 00000000   edx: 00000000
 esi: 00039100   edi: c034e7a0   ebp: 003b2007   esp: c031ffec
 ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
 Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo=c031f000 task=c02cdaa0)
 Stack: 00020800 c010408a c03205fe c034e7c0 c010019f
 Call Trace:
     
  [<c010408a>] cpu_idle+0x1d/0x32
  [<c03205fe>] start_kernel+0x174/0x176
                                                              
          
 Code: 0f 01 c8 8b 43 08 a8 08 75 0c 89 c8 0f 01 c9 8b 43 08 a8 08
  <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
 In idle task - not syncing


What to do?
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