[CentOS] Kernel panic installing CentOS 5.2 in Parallels on iMac

[Bart Schaefer]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
> The powernowk8 bug is in the CentOS-5.2 isos but apparently not in
> previous versions.  So, one way to get around the problem is to use
> CentOS-5.1 install media and then update the kernel to the latest
> version which is free of this bug.

For the record, this worked, thanks.

I needed to add agp=off at the installer boot prompt, and both that
and clock=pit to grub.conf after the installation was complete.