Description of problem: I ran yum update on two machines. One of them picked up the smp kernel, the other just the regular i686 kernel. None of them could boot that kernel. One machine is a kp220d, the other a very new dell. Both of them boot the 2.6.16-1.2096-kernel just fine. It gets to just after udev is OK then X tries to start, and then it just hangs How reproducible: as often as you want Steps to Reproduce: 1.turn the computer off 2.turn the computer on 3. Actual results: Computer hangs right after udev OK Expected results:the computer should boot Additional info:
Created attachment 128611 [details] Kernel gave up and panicked This text was captured via hyperterminal on another computer.
A note that I did not suspend before booting into this kernel. Why it decided to check for a signature in swap is beyond me. The previous kernel does not do this. kernel 2096_FC5
Killing the X-Server with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace helped for me.
i have the identical symptoms that cornette reports; boot to 2096 works fine. nice to learn about the ctrl-alt-backspace frob.
You seem to have removed this kernel now, which is good, but it would be nice if you said so here, so that repositories like livna could remove the 2107 kernel modules
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 190575 ***