On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 11:50 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Gerhard Magnus writes: > > > Does this refer to other processors on the same computer or on different > > machines on a network? > > Same computer. > > Note that Intel Xeon CPUs have two cores, which are two logical processors, > so even if you have one physical CPU, the Fedora installer will install an > SMP kernel. > > > Could the smp kernel ran into some sort of synchronization problem with > > the other machines and now be "parametrically confused" about something? > > No. > > > I'd like to either (1) reset it or (2) fix the update process so that > > the default is for non-smp kernels. Thanks for any suggestions. > > You need to post the messages that immediately precede the kernel panic. > > The kernel may not be able to boot for a variety of reasons. Post the > preceding error messages in order to identify the reason for the failure. I'm assuming that messages during booting are saved somewhere. What is the name of the file? Is there a tool for accessing the most important system logs?
