On 1/27/2010 8:18 AM, Huw Wyn Jones wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> 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.
>
> Has anyone on this list come across a similar issue? This is new to me so I'd 
> appreciate any words of wisdom.
>

It still could be the controller or disks - or bad memory on the old 
machine might have corrupted the files on disk.   Does 'rpm -Va' show 
any surprising file changes?  Any errors shown by 'dmesg'?  Can you 
start services one at a time to see if it one kills it consistently?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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