Kernel Problems: Not funny anymore

[alan]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Brian Fahrlander wrote:

> 
>     So like everyone else I'm updating the home system here with
> whatever the repos have available.  Fairly vanilla hardware, working for
> years, and I don't mess with it much, either.
> 
>     One day 'yum update' offers me kernel-2.6.6-1.435.  I reboot to it,
> expecting to have to mess with the Nvidia drivers, but I never get that
> far- instant reboot.  No text, no explanation, just BEEP! and I see the
> BIOS re-init.  Very funny.
> 
>     So I stay with the old kernel, kernel-2.6.7-1.494.2.2.  A couple of
> days or weeks go by.
> 
>     Today I was offered kernel-2.6.8-1.521.  Instant reboot.
> 
>     This is no longer a fluke; this is a trend.
> 
>     Questions:
> 
>     1.  Is anyone ELSE having this glaring problem?
> 
>     2.  What can I do to learn why *I* am having it?
> 
>     3.  Is this thing going to keep happening?

Does it work if you go back to a previous kernel?  (They should still be 
on the list.)  If it does not work with that either, you may have a 
hardware problem.  Memtest86 is your friend at that point.