[CentOS] Re: Kernel panic kickstarting to CentOS 4

[Scott Silva]

Cynthia Kiser spake the following on 2/5/2007 4:14 PM:
> Quoting Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>:
>> Cynthia Kiser spake the following on 2/5/2007 3:27 PM:
>>>>> See if you can boot from the 4.4 live CD.
>>>> Just burned one. Off to give it a try. 
>>> Hmmmmm Writing this from the 4.4 live CD. So that works great. OK back
>>> to the office to burn a 4.4 install CD. 
>> AFAIR the install cd only has a uniprocessor kernel, as only one processor is
>> needed for an install. You might be hitting some kernel flaw in the install
>> cd's boot kernel.
> 
> Actually I shouldn't have emailed so soon. For the first boot from the
> live CD I tried the specified failsafe options suggested in the
> prompt: linux nonet simplex acpi=off That booted all the way to a GUI
> - and had network support(!?). For my next attempt I just hit return
> and it hung. I couldn't find any virtual terminals with error
> messages, but that might be me not knowing the right key
> combination. Trying to boot with only acpi=off gets me much of the way
> - until the live CD tries to run X; then I get a very nice box
> bouncing around my screen saying "video mode not supported". The
> monitor is kind of crappy and obscure, so that is disappointing, but
> not a huge deal - and I think these instructions on the Scientific
> Linux site might let me fix that problem. 
> 	http://linux.web.psi.ch/livecd/trouble.html 
> 
> Burning the disk 1 of 4 iso for CentOS 4.4 and we'll see what that
> does. 
I think the live cd defaults to 1024x768 and 75 HZ, so it might be out of the
monitors range.

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