[CentOS] Centos 5.5 - Kernel Panic while booting.

Fri Dec 17 23:23:52 UTC 2010
Lisandro Grullon <lgrullon at CityTech.Cuny.Edu>

Dear centos community,
I was in the process of loading the latest 5.5 release of centos in a VMWARE ESX 4.1 host as my first virtual machine, suddenly while booting I got a panic error with the following on screen. Can someone point me in the right direction. This machine has 24 cores and I allocated 1 for Centos to use with 1024MB of memory. Any clues or workaround to solve this problem? Thank you in advance. 

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000040 RIP:
 [] cpuid4_cache_lookup+0x256/0x356
PGD 0
Oops: 0000 [1] SMP
last sysfs file:
CPU 0
Modules linked in:
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.18-194.el5 #1
RIP: 0010:[]  [] cpuid4_cache_lookup+0x256/6
RSP: 0000:ffff81010fc75d60  EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000060 RCX: 00000000000006aa
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000060 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: ffff81010f765580 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000040
R10: ffff81010fc75cf0 R11: 0000000000000060 R12: 0000000000000080
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000003
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff803cb000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000040 CR3: 0000000000201000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo ffff81010fc74000, task ffff81010fc657a0)
Stack:  ffff81010fc75e00 000280000f765ec0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
 0000000040020140 00000000000000d0 ffff810140020140 0000000000000286
 00000000000006a9 0000000000000000 0000000017c0003f 0000000000000000
Call Trace:
 [] cacheinfo_cpu_callback+0xe9/0x516
 [] cacheinfo_cpu_callback+0x134/0x516
 [] cache_sysfs_init+0x39/0x54
 [] init+0x1f9/0x2f7
 [] child_rip+0xa/0x11
 [] acpi_ds_init_one_object+0x0/0x80
 [] init+0x0/0x2f7
 [] child_rip+0x0/0x11




Code: 8b 72 40 48 8d 4c 24 1c 48 8b 7a 20 ba c4 01 00 00 e8 5f 77
RIP  [] cpuid4_cache_lookup+0x256/0x356
 RSP 
CR2: 0000000000000040
 <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception


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