kernel panic

[Gerhard Magnus]

On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 11:50 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Gerhard Magnus writes:
> 
> > Does this refer to other processors on the same computer or on different
> > machines on a network?
> 
> Same computer.
> 
> Note that Intel Xeon CPUs have two cores, which are two logical processors, 
> so even if you have one physical CPU, the Fedora installer will install an 
> SMP kernel.
> 
> > Could the smp kernel ran into some sort of synchronization problem with
> > the other machines and now be "parametrically confused" about something?
> 
> No.
> 
> > I'd like to either (1) reset it or (2) fix the update process so that
> > the default is for non-smp kernels.  Thanks for any suggestions.
> 
> You need to post the messages that immediately precede the kernel panic.
> 
> The kernel may not be able to boot for a variety of reasons.  Post the 
> preceding error messages in order to identify the reason for the failure.

I'm assuming that messages during booting are saved somewhere.  What is
the name of the file?  Is there a tool for accessing the most important
system logs?