On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 20:33 +0000, David Fletcher wrote: > > I suspect that because the work machine gets updated so infrequently, sometime > it has missed something important in an update, that is not now on the > mirrors because they have been updated again. Am I correct? No. The only way an update would be removed from a mirror is if there is an update to the update in which you still would be fine. But if the kernel panic is happening at boot, it isn't a missing update. The kernel doesn't like something about your hardware. Have you tried running memtest86?