[CentOS] 7.2 kernel panic on boot

Thu Dec 3 13:44:47 UTC 2015
Duncan Brown <centos2 at duncb.co.uk>

On 03/12/2015 13:33, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 09:29:21AM +0000, Duncan Brown wrote:
>> Hi All
>>
>> After upgrading to 7.2, I'm getting an immediate kernel panic on boot
>>
>> Dropping back to 3.10.0-229.20.1.el7.x86_64 and the system boots fine
>>
>> How can I go about diagnosing the problem here?
> It'd probably help if you could give us more details on the kernel
> panic.
>
> Can you see where it is panicking?  Does it happen during the
> kernel/initrd stage or later during boot?
>
> I suggest installing the kdump service if it is panicking later in
> boot, you might be able to capture a kernel dump which makes debugging
> these things a lot easier.  Otherwise, I suggest trying to capture the
> panic message some other way.
>
The last message before it is "switching to clocksource hpet"

Then the panic scrolls by

I've no idea if that counts as later or not