I'm running Oracle Linux 6 on a HP Proliant server. It's been running fine for the last week, but seemed slow earlier so the Oracle service was stopped. Rather than restart the service, I was asked to reboot the server, but on start we got a kernel panic
First I get the following, which HP said isn't important, but I'm inclined not to believe them
[Firmware Bug]: the BIOS has corrupted hw-PMU resources (MSR 38d is 330)
ERST: Can not request iomem region <0xffff88030c1dfe20-0xffff1006183bfc40> for ERST
Then the Kernel panic
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.39-300.26.1.el6euk.x86-64 #1
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81509077>] panic+0x91/0x1a8
[<ffffffff81061562>] ? enqueue_entity+0x52/0x210
[<ffffffff8107196b>] forget_original_parent+0x32b/0x330
[<ffffffff8105adbd>] ? sched_move_task+0x9d/0x150
[<ffffffff8107198b>] exit_notify+0x1b/0x190
[<ffffffff81072a8e>] do_exit+0x1fe/0x430
[<ffffffff81072d15>] do_group_exit+0x55/0xd0
[<ffffffff81072da7>] sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20
[<ffffffff81514402>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
panic occurred: switching back to text console
Could anyone give me a pointer as to what is or even could be causing this? I'm completely stumped at this point. (System administration isn't my day job - I can get a server running but kernel panics are outside my comfort zone)
Edit: Tested with the following kernels
2.6.39-300.26.1.el6euk.x86_64
2.6.39-200.24.1.el6euk.x86_64
2.6.32-279.19.1.el6.x86_64
2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64