Upgrade to RHEL 6.2 kernel-2.6.32-220.7.1.el6.x86_64 causes kernel panic on boot

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Running RHEL 6 on a new, vanilla Dell T1600 workstation. Nothing attached but keyboard and monitor. Latest Dell BIOS (A10).

 

Installed RHEL from distribution DVDs; no problems. Then did a "yum update"; no other changes, no other downloads. System now panics immediately on booting with the yum-supplied kernel-2..6.32-220.7.1.el6.x86_64 and is immediately unresponsive to any keyboard input - have to power off to restart.

 

Last few lines of the trace/dump on the console are below - I can't see any more than this and as a newbie, not sure how to direct the crash output somewhere else (file, COMx, etc) to see it all. Suggestions welcomed....

 

Superficially this is similar to the output described in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770228 - but since that was only a warning message, not a crash, I'm not sure it applies here. (I have tried "pcie_aspm=off" as mentioned in other postings as a possible solution - no joy.)

 

Again, suggestions welcomed. I can run on the stock kernel (2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64) for now but would rather be up-to-date.

 

David

 

 [<ffffffffa01a2000>] ? nouveau_init+0x0/0x51 [nouveau]
 [<ffffffffa008106a>] drm_pci_init+0x11a/0x130 [drm]
 [<ffffffffa01a2000>] ? nouveau_init+0x0/0x51 [nouveau]
 [<ffffffffa01a2000>] ? nouveau_init+0x0/0x51 [nouveau]
 [<ffffffffa01a204f>] nouveau_init+0x4f/0x51 [nouveau]
 [<ffffffff8100204c>] do_one_initcall+0x3c/0x1d0
 [<ffffffff810af5f1>] sys_init_module+0xe1/0x250
 [<ffffffff8100b0f2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

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