If you could tell me what your machine prints before the kernel panic i could try to guess what happened
hmmmm... this looks a little suspicious: invalid compressed format (err=2)<6> Freeing initrd memory 451k freed
this means either your initrd is corrupted, or you did not rerun lilo after createing the initrd.
Regards, L.
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