[DC LoCo] Kernel Panic!

[Keith Howell]

On 02/01/2011 04:20 PM, Kevin Cole wrote:
> 2011/2/1 Frank J. Gómez <frank at crop-circle.net>:
> 
>> I can't get it to boot off any kernel.  I have a few Ubuntu disks that will
>> get to the menu (Install Ubuntu, Do memtest, Boot from hard drive, Repair,
>> etc), but I can't get one to boot properly.
> 
> Oops. Re-reading your original, I see that now.  My bad.
> 
>> Sticker on the machine says it's an AMD 64, but my Live CDs fail
>> whether I try a 64 or i386 architecture.  Can't even boot off my
>> Clonezilla CD.
> 
> The "not-booting-off-CDs" part of the equation sounds ominous...
> assuming you've previously been able to do that.  Highly suggestive of
> hardware failure not at the hard disk level.

There used to be problems with the ACPI stuff that caused me no end of
grief on some older hardware.

But as Kevin says, if it will not boot off a CD, it is looking poor.

There are various advanced kernel options that can be selected from the
grub menu to try to bypass some of the hardware handling and get the
system to boot.

As with any problem solving, sometimes it comes down to iterating
through the possibilities until we find the problem.

Do you have spare hardware? If not, let me know off list and I can try
to help out with more than suggestions on the list.

-- 
Keith