On 01/27 02:18 , Huw Wyn Jones wrote:
> OK I've tried swapping out hardware. I found an identical server, known to
> be working, and moved the RAID controller and the five drives over to
> that. In a stroke that meant different memory, cpu, power supply and
> motherboard. The result though stays the same :-( Kernel panic within a
> few seconds of reaching the login prompt. Interactive boot with no
> services running seems to be fine.

Try booting to single user mode and starting services by hand, to see which
one makes the system fall over?

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Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
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