Hi,
I had an issue with this kernel upgrade too. All worked fine until the 194 Kernel then hung on boot on 4 machines all with identical motherboards. All had USB keyboards, when replaced with PS2 keyboards all worked fine! What is to blame? - motherboard, kernel or keyboard.. I have no idea.
I have also seen similar hangs on boot with asrock motherboards and there crazy version of a VGA slot that only too certain cards. Does you machine have an onboard graphics adapter you could try booting with?
Steve
On Sun, 6 Jun 2010, John Thomas wrote:
I have a machine that has worked fine for years on CentOS5. kernel-PAE-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 is the last "works fine" kernel, but kernel-PAE-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 crashes at boot every time.
I tried banging on the side of the monitor to no avail.
All kidding aside, here are pictures of my monitor when booting 194 in case that is helpful. http://jt-socal.com/sites/jt-socal.com/files/kernel-panic.jpg http://jt-socal.com/sites/jt-socal.com/files/just-before-crashing.jpg
Any suggestions on fixing this?