Cam in this morning and had the dump info on screen but could not find anything in the /var/log/messages file. I am using CentOS 4.1. Had been
if you see a kernel panic on the screen the chances are very little to find anything in messages file or in the filesystem. Because it's a panic the kernel doesn't have the chance to sync the filesystem or do anything. You have several debug options and use of netdump but nothing is 100% sure. What was on the screen? The last messages. Next time try to provide some useful info to the list if you want some help. All I can say right now: ok, your machine crashed, and what? There are thousands of possibilities why this happened. Try to use LKCD http://lkcd.sourceforge.net/ .
Try to provide the next info: - last message of the screen - attach the whole crash dump - details of the machine (IA32, x86-64, CPU type, memory type, motherboard type, disk controller) - system setting (LVM, sw raid, filesystem, SELinux or not etc.)
Bye, Ago