[CentOS] kernel panic/abort during boot

[Ross Walker]

On Dec 23, 2011, at 2:47 PM, fred smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 01:02:12PM -0500, fred smith wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 05:53:13PM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>> On 12/22/2011 05:44 PM, fred smith wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 04:56:42PM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> <snip>
>>>>> 
>>>>> There is a new kernel building right now that might
>>>>> fix something ... though I do not see anything specifically about your cpu.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Here is the errata link:
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1849.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> If everything builds it should be released in a couple of hours.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> so it'll show up in a release channel (or CR repo) ?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> It will be in 6.2/updates/
>>> 
>>> Still building right now.
>>> 
>> 
>> Johnny, I got that kernel, and it dies what appears to be the same
>> death as the prior one. the register dump is different than the one
>> I showed, but even before that the dump didn't always look the same.
>> this one also mentions something about alsa or snd. I can put it up on
>> the same web site as the last one if anyone would find it useful to 
>> see (I certainly don't know how to interpret it).
>> 
>> also, this is a netbook, so it has no serial port. If it did I'd look
>> into a serial console on the theory that I could capture the entire
>> dump. Can anyone suggest how I would do that without a serial console?
>> ... or if not exactly that, other things that would be useful to do
>> to help clarify/diagnose this?
>> 
>> thanks all!
>> 
>> Fred
> 
> here's th e register dump for this failure. it looks like it may be
> more useful than the last one:
> 
> http://users.rcn.com/fredricksmith/100_2020.JPG

Is that sound on-board? If it is disable it in BIOS, if it isn't, remove the card.

See if it breaks after that.

-Ross