CentOS - Jun 2010 - 194 Kernel Panic; 164 is Fine; How Do I Debug?

I have a machine that has worked fine for years on CentOS5.
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 is the last "works fine" kernel, but
kernel-PAE-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 crashes at boot every time.

I tried banging on the side of the monitor to no avail.

All kidding aside, here are pictures of my monitor when booting 194 in 
case that is helpful.
http://jt-socal.com/sites/jt-socal.com/files/kernel-panic.jpg
http://jt-socal.com/sites/jt-socal.com/files/just-before-crashing.jpg

Any suggestions on fixing this?

-- 
Sincerely,
John Thomas

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 7:35 AM, John Thomas
<gmane-2006-04-16 at jt-socal.com> wrote:
> I have a machine that has worked fine for years on CentOS5.
> kernel-PAE-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 is the last "works fine" kernel,
but
> kernel-PAE-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 crashes at boot every time.
>
> I tried banging on the side of the monitor to no avail.
>
> All kidding aside, here are pictures of my monitor when booting 194 in
> case that is helpful.
> http://jt-socal.com/sites/jt-socal.com/files/kernel-panic.jpg
> http://jt-socal.com/sites/jt-socal.com/files/just-before-crashing.jpg
>
> Any suggestions on fixing this?
>
Let's see - you're running a Dell and the second photo is out of
focus....

Sorry, I just couldn't resist.

I'm wondering if is has something to do with the PAE kernel vs. your
machine.  Can you elaborate on that at all?

mhr

> I have a machine that has worked fine for years on CentOS5.
> kernel-PAE-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 is the last "works fine" kernel,
but
> kernel-PAE-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 crashes at boot every time.
>
>   
FYI i am having anaconda issues with 2.6.18-194 - basically anaconda 
crashes randomly both on x4100's and some r610's

These are bare metal installs and happen on CentOS and RHEL - I have a 
work around but would be nice to know whats going on.

Hi,

I had an issue with this kernel upgrade too. All worked fine until the 
194 Kernel then hung on boot on 4 machines all with identical 
motherboards. All had USB keyboards, when replaced with PS2 keyboards all 
worked fine! What is to blame? - motherboard, kernel or keyboard.. I have 
no idea.

I have also seen similar hangs on boot with asrock motherboards and there 
crazy version of a VGA slot that only too certain cards. Does you machine 
have an onboard graphics adapter you could try booting with?

Steve



On Sun, 6 Jun 2010, John Thomas wrote:
> I have a machine that has worked fine for years on CentOS5.
> kernel-PAE-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 is the last "works fine" kernel,
but
> kernel-PAE-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 crashes at boot every time.
>
> I tried banging on the side of the monitor to no avail.
>
> All kidding aside, here are pictures of my monitor when booting 194 in
> case that is helpful.
> http://jt-socal.com/sites/jt-socal.com/files/kernel-panic.jpg
> http://jt-socal.com/sites/jt-socal.com/files/just-before-crashing.jpg
>
> Any suggestions on fixing this?
>
>
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