On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Bart Schaefer barton.schaefer@gmail.com wrote:
I'm unable to get much past the "boot:" prompt in the installer. The panic appears to be in powernowk8_init which according to http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0612.html has a recently-fixed null-pointer dereference. That errata is from August 4; the latest CentOS install ISOs are from June.
I tried the agp=off suggestion from e.g. http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=13512 with no success.
Is there a good way to proceed here? Will there be new install media with the more recent kernel?
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.
Akemi