I downloaded the Live DVD for CentOS-6.5 and burned a DVD-R using a CentOS-6.5 desktop. To test the validity of the new DVD I then rebooted the same desktop using the same Live DVD. No matter which Live DVD boot option I choose I see this after the splash screen completes the Circle (sounds like a good title for a novel).
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Kernel panic - Not syncing - Attempting to kill init! Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 # 1
call trace [<ffffffff815271fa>] ? Panic+0xa7/0x16f [<ffffffff81077622>] ? do_exit+0x862/0x870 [<ffffffff8118a865>] ? fput+0x25/0x30 [<ffffffff81077688>] ? do_group_exit+0x58/0xd0 [<ffffffff81077717>] ? sys_exit_group+0x17/0x020 [<ffffffff81006072>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x16
dkm_kms_helper panic occurred, switching back to text console
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The very last line appears for each boot choice saving only the text mode boot. In that case the line is absent but the rest of the output remains unchanged.
An extract of the system specifications rendered by lshw:
<--- description: Desktop Computer width: 64 bits capabilities: smbios-2.4 dmi-2.4 vsyscall64 vsyscall32 configuration: boot=normal chassis=desktop uuid=B4CDC46C-7E7A-11DE-87DF-0011D8A408ED *-core description: Motherboard product: DG43GT vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 0 version: AAE62768-300 serial: BTGT931003W4 slot: To be filled by O.E.M. *-firmware description: BIOS vendor: Intel Corp. physical id: 0 version: GTG4310H.86A.0019.2009.0625.1334 (06/25/2009) size: 64KiB capacity: 960KiB capabilities: pci upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb ls120boot zipboot biosbootspecification *-cpu description: CPU product: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8400 @ 2.66GHz vendor: Intel Corp. physical id: 4 bus info: cpu@0 version: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8400 @ 2.66GHz serial: To Be Filled By O.E.M. slot: PROCESSOR size: 2666MHz capacity: 4GHz width: 64 bits clock: 333MHz capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx x86-64 constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave lahf_lm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority *-cache:0 description: L1 cache physical id: 5 slot: L1-Cache size: 32KiB capacity: 32KiB capabilities: internal write-back data *-cache:1 description: L2 cache physical id: 6 slot: L2-Cache size: 2MiB capacity: 2MiB capabilities: internal varies unified *-memory description: System Memory physical id: 2b slot: System board or motherboard size: 16GiB *-bank:0 description: DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 800 MHz (1.2 ns) product: PartNum0 vendor: Manufacturer0 physical id: 0 serial: SerNum0 slot: CHANNEL_A size: 4GiB width: 64 bits clock: 800MHz (1.2ns) *-bank:1 --->
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