Tru, looks like a bug in centos, I just loaded RHEL 6 without any issues. I dont think it has something to do with the actual image file, but in any case maybe I should re-download the entire DVD again just to make sure. Thank you Tru.

>>> Tru Huynh <tru@centos.org> 12/17/10 6:47 PM >>>
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 06:23:52PM -0500, Lisandro Grullon wrote:
> Dear centos community,
> I was in the process of loading the latest 5.5 release of centos in a VMWARE ESX 4.1 host as my first virtual machine, suddenly while booting I got a panic error with the following on screen. Can someone point me in the right direction. This machine has 24 cores and I allocated 1 for Centos to use with 1024MB of memory. Any clues or workaround to solve this problem? Thank you in advance.
maybe you are hitting: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4581

Tru

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