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[Mikeambrose3]

Sorry that this isn't the right forum, could someone tell me where I would post a question like this?


I recently installed CentOS 6 on a new E3-1270 that I got yesterday, everything was working fine yesterday after it was installed.

Today I log on my PC, try to connect, and nothing is working. I go to IPMI and open a KVM window to see that it says the following.

Kernal panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

What is the cause of this? I haven't touched my server since it was all working fine. Rebooting only makes this screen appear again.

The server is unmanaged and my host refuses to answer questions like this without charging me up the ass like all corporate companies do, so any help is appreciated..

[ziggo0]

What are the other lines listed below the kernel panic? I was trying to put CentOS 6.2 on my laptop to mess with SolusVM & Xen and it kept kernel panicing right after a fresh basic video install...turns out the onboard audio would not have it. Blacklisting the driver before it booted fixed the problem.

[Mikeambrose3]

Originally Posted by ziggo0

What are the other lines listed below the kernel panic? I was trying to put CentOS 6.2 on my laptop to mess with SolusVM & Xen and it kept kernel panicing right after a fresh basic video install...turns out the onboard audio would not have it. Blacklisting the driver before it booted fixed the problem.

There is nothing else, it just says that above. There are no additional errors.
Is this a CentOS issue? I've never had this issue on the 5. versions of CentOS, this is new.

[mellow-h]

Did you install any kernel module after it was provisioned? Kernel panic appears when kernel arises an exception and most of the time it is due to incorrect module. You should probably want to go to Single user mode using your IPMI and check the "message" log. If your host support rescue kernel or live cd, you might want to try that as well.

Good luck.

[Mikeambrose3]

Originally Posted by mellow-h

Did you install any kernel module after it was provisioned? Kernel panic appears when kernel arises an exception and most of the time it is due to incorrect module. You should probably want to go to Single user mode using your IPMI and check the "message" log. If your host support rescue kernel or live cd, you might want to try that as well.

Good luck.

How do you use this "Single user mode"? Sorry, but I haven't used IPMI much at all as it was never needed. I've looked through everything but don't see anything relating to that :\

To answer your question, no. My host kind of takes it like everyone is a professional. YES my server is unmanaged but they can't support me the first day I get the server and have an issue? Er.

[mellow-h]

Single User Mode: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/grub-bo...gle-user-mode/

I didn't really mean "support" as technical support rather whether they provide "rescue kernel" or "live cd" as an optional tool or not. Most of the hosts who allows IPMI also provides a way to do this as far I have seen.

[Mikeambrose3]

Originally Posted by mellow-h

Single User Mode: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/grub-bo...gle-user-mode/

I didn't really mean "support" as technical support rather whether they provide "rescue kernel" or "live cd" as an optional tool or not. Most of the hosts who allows IPMI also provides a way to do this as far I have seen.

I will ask my host, but there is no grub menu after restart.
It goes to the SuperMicro boot screen and DEL is the only option which brings up the boot options and bios settings such. No kernel info in any of them.

EDIT: Nevermind, didn't notice the grub menu afterwards.. Lol sorry. I'll look through it now.

[mellow-h]

The Grub Menu should appear after the Boot screen. If you fail to use a single user mode, live cd is probably the only tool you can use to troubleshoot.

[Mikeambrose3]

Originally Posted by mellow-h

The Grub Menu should appear after the Boot screen. If you fail to use a single user mode, live cd is probably the only tool you can use to troubleshoot.

I'm just going to wipe it and install a different version of Cent, I've had no problems with 5.7 and it's what I've always used. I'm pretty sure my host messed up something when installing it yesterday, I've had quite a few other problems that I've fixed already without telling them.

Thanks for the help anyways.