[CentOS] Kernel Panic post kernel-2.6.32-504.23.4.el6.x86_64

Wed Feb 3 23:20:18 UTC 2016
Max Pyziur <pyz at brama.com>

On Wed, 3 Feb 2016, Warren Young wrote:

> On Feb 3, 2016, at 12:24 PM, Max Pyziur <pyz at brama.com> wrote:
>>
>> When I tried rebooting the machine, none of the kernels would work except for the oldest one.
>
> Define “would not work”.  Post a photo of the error message somewhere if you can’t describe it better than that.  You might have to turn off rhgb mode to get a useful error message.

Here's a photo of the screen once the booting froze:
http://www.brama.com/~deckard/P1010308.JPG

>> Here are the installed kernels:
>>
>> kernel-2.6.32-504.23.4.el6.x86_64
>> kernel-2.6.32-573.3.1.el6.x86_64
>> kernel-2.6.32-573.7.1.el6.x86_64
>> kernel-2.6.32-573.8.1.el6.x86_64
>> kernel-2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.x86_64

> Post the contents of /etc/grub.conf.

I removed most of the non-working kernels 2.6.32-573-*, except for the 
latest one; here's /etc/grub.conf

root at onavenuea ~> more /etc/grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this 
file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda3
#          initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title CentOS (2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.x86_64)
 	root (hd0,0)
 	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.x86_64 ro 
root=UUID=1d8767bf-b3a6-439a-b359-ba6b0a4f20cf nomodeset rd_NO_LUKS 
KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_NO_MD 
SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 crashkernel=auto rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_DM rhgb quiet
 	initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-573.12.1.el6.x86_64.img
title CentOS (2.6.32-504.23.4.el6.x86_64)
 	root (hd0,0)
 	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-504.23.4.el6.x86_64 ro 
root=UUID=1d8767bf-b3a6-439a-b359-ba6b0a4f20cf nomodeset rd_NO_LUKS 
KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_NO_MD 
SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 crashkernel=auto rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_DM rhgb quiet
 	initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-504.23.4.el6.x86_64.img



Thank you.

Max Pyziur
pyz at brama.com