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

[madunix at gmail.com]

If You have upgraded kernel, it may happen that you forgot to include
drivers for your hdd controller. Otherwise, your Disk just broke.
Verify with BIOS if all drives are available.

-madunix
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Grzegorz Witkowski <geslinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Ges
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