RHEL 6.1 "Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!"

[Grzegorz Witkowski]

On Feb 24, 2012 7:26 a.m., "unix syzadmin" <unixsyzadmin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have recently started installing RHEL 6.1 on Dell PowerEdge r710 and
> observed following issues:
>
> 1. We see a progress bar on the DRAC, but the login prompt does not appear
> for a long time.
> 2. Also observed kernel panic a few times during reboot  "Kernel panic -
> not syncing: Attempted to kill init!"
>
> # more /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.1 (Santiago)
>
> # uname -r
> 2.6.32-131.21.1.el6.x86_64
>
> Please suggest.
> Thanks,
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Make sure your system firmware is up2date, BIOS, BMC, iDRAC PERC, etc.
Check support matrix from Dell to see if 6.1 is supported on 710. Did you
test your image. Make sure it is not corrupt. Bios to default settings. If
still the same, remove PCI cards from back risers.
Contact Dell support.

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