No ideas yet, but let me ask this: if you boot into rescue mode mode with a CentOS 6 disk, what happens if you were modify partitions and format the file systems within the shell? It would be interesting to see if you were to get a kernel panic at that point or not. - Rilindo Foster http://monzell.com http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rilindo-foster/2/b32/43b On Oct 16, 2011, at 2:46 PM, "William L. Maltby" <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 2011-10-16 at 14:28 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: >> <snip> > >> I tried, based on *old* memories, adding kernel arguments of noapic and >> nolapic (IIRC). Still no joy. >> <snip> > > Amazing what brainstorms hit after you click "send". Unfortunately, the > thoughts didn't help. > > I tried again using the kernel parameters from the CentOS 4.8 grub > kernel parameters that still work. > > ide0=ata66 ide1=ata66 hdc=ide-cd lapic > > AFAICT, same results. > > TIA, > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos