remidian.com » vmware http://remidian.com Braindumps of Remi Visser, freelance Oracle DBA. Mon, 10 May 2010 12:33:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Centos 5.0 install fails, kernel panic http://remidian.com/nix/vmware/centos-50-install-fails-kernel-panic.html http://remidian.com/nix/vmware/centos-50-install-fails-kernel-panic.html#comments Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:40:45 +0000 remivisser http://remidian.com/nix/centos-50-install-fails-kernel-panick.html The following configuration is at place, VMWare Server (1.0.3) on Windows XP (host operating system). Installation of Centos 5.0 fails with kernel panic.

I can not get Centos 5.0 installed, I choose, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 as the ‘Guest Operating System’ the boot starts fine, but after a while the kernel panic errors appear and the install freezes.

Solution (workaround)

As I did not have the time to sort this one out, I downloaded a preconfigured VM Machine CentOS 5.0 server install from thoughtpolice.co.uk, http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/#centos5.0 (ziparchive is 399M, extracted it is 8G). This one is running stable now, thank you thought police! Saved my day.

Screen Captures

Centos welcome screen

Kernel Panic abort

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