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 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
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Lisandro Grullon lgrullon@citytech.cuny.edu wrote:
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 >>>
maybe you are hitting: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4581
Tru
This is not a CentOS bug. As stated in the KB articles quoted in the bug report:
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-31516 https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-38013
the patch is in the kernel-2.6.18-194.3.1 and onward. CentOS/RHEL 5.5 comes with kernel-2.6.18-194 which has the bug. RHEL-6's kernel is much newer at 2.6.32-71, so it does not have this bug.
Therefore to get around this issue, as suggested in one of the KB articles, you first install CentOS *5.4* and then update it to the current kernel thus skipping the problematic kernel.
Akemi
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