On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer at 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