[CentOS] CentOS-6.5 LiveDVD problem

Fri Jul 4 17:43:03 UTC 2014
James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca>

I downloaded the Live DVD for CentOS-6.5 and burned a DVD-R using a CentOS-6.5
desktop.  To test the validity of the new DVD I then rebooted the same desktop
using the same Live DVD.  No matter which Live DVD boot option I choose I see
this after the splash screen completes the Circle (sounds like a good title
for a novel).

<---

Kernel panic - Not syncing - Attempting to kill init!
Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 # 1

call trace
[<ffffffff815271fa>] ? Panic+0xa7/0x16f
[<ffffffff81077622>] ? do_exit+0x862/0x870
[<ffffffff8118a865>] ? fput+0x25/0x30
[<ffffffff81077688>] ? do_group_exit+0x58/0xd0
[<ffffffff81077717>] ? sys_exit_group+0x17/0x020
[<ffffffff81006072>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x16

dkm_kms_helper panic occurred, switching back to text console

--->

The very last line appears for each boot choice saving only the text mode
boot. In that case the line is absent but the rest of the output remains
unchanged.

An extract of the system specifications rendered by lshw:

<---
    description: Desktop Computer
    width: 64 bits
    capabilities: smbios-2.4 dmi-2.4 vsyscall64 vsyscall32
    configuration: boot=normal chassis=desktop
uuid=B4CDC46C-7E7A-11DE-87DF-0011D8A408ED
  *-core
       description: Motherboard
       product: DG43GT
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 0
       version: AAE62768-300
       serial: BTGT931003W4
       slot: To be filled by O.E.M.
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: Intel Corp.
          physical id: 0
          version: GTG4310H.86A.0019.2009.0625.1334 (06/25/2009)
          size: 64KiB
          capacity: 960KiB
          capabilities: pci upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect
socketedrom edd int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880
int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video
acpi usb ls120boot zipboot biosbootspecification
     *-cpu
          description: CPU
          product: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q8400  @ 2.66GHz
          vendor: Intel Corp.
          physical id: 4
          bus info: cpu at 0
          version: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q8400  @ 2.66GHz
          serial: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
          slot: PROCESSOR
          size: 2666MHz
          capacity: 4GHz
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 333MHz
          capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8
apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse
sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx x86-64 constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs
bts rep_good aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3
cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 xsave lahf_lm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority
        *-cache:0
             description: L1 cache
             physical id: 5
             slot: L1-Cache
             size: 32KiB
             capacity: 32KiB
             capabilities: internal write-back data
        *-cache:1
             description: L2 cache
             physical id: 6
             slot: L2-Cache
             size: 2MiB
             capacity: 2MiB
             capabilities: internal varies unified
     *-memory
          description: System Memory
          physical id: 2b
          slot: System board or motherboard
          size: 16GiB
        *-bank:0
             description: DIMM DDR2 Synchronous 800 MHz (1.2 ns)
             product: PartNum0
             vendor: Manufacturer0
             physical id: 0
             serial: SerNum0
             slot: CHANNEL_A
             size: 4GiB
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 800MHz (1.2ns)
        *-bank:1
--->


Help???

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