[CentOS] kernel panic/abort during boot

[fred smith]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 05:44:11PM -0500, Ross Walker wrote:
> On Dec 23, 2011, at 2:47 PM, fred smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 01:02:12PM -0500, fred smith wrote:
> >> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 05:53:13PM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> >>> On 12/22/2011 05:44 PM, fred smith wrote:
> >>>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 04:56:42PM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> >> <snip>
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> There is a new kernel building right now that might
> >>>>> fix something ... though I do not see anything specifically about your cpu.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Here is the errata link:
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1849.html
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> If everything builds it should be released in a couple of hours.
> >>>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> so it'll show up in a release channel (or CR repo) ?
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>> It will be in 6.2/updates/
> >>> 
> >>> Still building right now.
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> Johnny, I got that kernel, and it dies what appears to be the same
> >> death as the prior one. the register dump is different than the one
> >> I showed, but even before that the dump didn't always look the same.
> >> this one also mentions something about alsa or snd. I can put it up on
> >> the same web site as the last one if anyone would find it useful to 
> >> see (I certainly don't know how to interpret it).
> >> 
> >> also, this is a netbook, so it has no serial port. If it did I'd look
> >> into a serial console on the theory that I could capture the entire
> >> dump. Can anyone suggest how I would do that without a serial console?
> >> ... or if not exactly that, other things that would be useful to do
> >> to help clarify/diagnose this?
> >> 
> >> thanks all!
> >> 
> >> Fred
> > 
> > here's th e register dump for this failure. it looks like it may be
> > more useful than the last one:
> > 
> > http://users.rcn.com/fredricksmith/100_2020.JPG
> 
> Is that sound on-board? If it is disable it in BIOS, if it isn't, remove the card.
> 
> See if it breaks after that.

the Bios has only a very few options, and disabling sound isn't
one of them. :( since it's a laptop (netbook) it's probably not
possible to yank the sound hardware (which, btw, works fine on
Centos 6.1).

I suppose I could try rebuilding the initial ram disk without the
sound module(s), though I'm not sure I know exactly the right way
to do that....

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