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Colleagues, 3 of 4 times this machine failed to boot, panicing somewhere in late kernel initialization phase (before /sbin/init is executed) I have serial console and KDB enabled, so can do experiments. Last two crashes: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0x8 fault code = supervisor read data, page not present instruction pointer =

I just installed CentOS 4.6 (because I had 4.6 media handy) on a new system, which has a SuperMicro PDSMi mobo with an E4600 CPU. I then did yum update to get to 4.7, although I don't think that's relevant to my query. I wondered why "shutdown -h" would not power down the system. I then also discovered that the soft power button did not initiate a switch to runlevel 0 to do a contro...

Hi all... I did some Google searches and didn't find any info on this so I'm posting it here... if this was recently discussed, I apologize for the duplication -- please point me to the appropriate thread. System Description: Supermicro SuperServer 5015M-MF w/ PDSMi Motherboard Intel Pentium 4 2.8 Ghz CPU 2 GB DDR2 Memory Digium T400P 4 Port T1 Card CentOS 5.1 (Final) Kernel: 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 All yum updates applied. Zaptel 1.4.8 compiles with no errors or warnings. Problem: When I reboot the server, the machine crashes (hard down) with a kern...

...s to try? One thing i'm going to try is downloading the stock 4.7 DVD ISO and see if it fails. The download is taking a while, so i won't be able to report back on that test until tomorrow. Oh yeah, the machines i'm using that are having this problem are a Dell R200, Supermicro PDSMi, and Supermicro P4SC8. I don't have the DVD drive mfg and model numbers handy, i'll get those as well. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. ...alex...