On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Lisandro Grullon <lgrullon at citytech.cuny.edu> 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. Have you verified your download? I run RHEL5.5 in ESX 4.1 without issue.