Thank you for your reply, Ed. Do you know if this issue affects CentOS 7.5 and kernels 3.10.0-862? I'm thinking of upgrading to 7.5 in order to support a meteorological project I'm working on. Brian On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 10:07 PM, nschehovin--- via CentOS <centos@xxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > Brian, > > Sorry I forgot to switch to plain text. > > The link is: > > https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=15186# > > > Ed > > > On Saturday, September 8, 2018, 9:56:25 PM EDT, nschehovin--- via CentOS < > centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > Brian, > There is a kernel bug that seems to affect systems with older Intel > processors. I have a Dell Laptop that on bootup of kernel > 2.6.32-754.3.5.el6.x86_64 will display a white square in the upper left > corner of the screen and halt. If I roll back to the > 2.6.32-696.30.1.el6.x86_64 version kernel all is well. > > More info at > 0015186: Cannot boot with kernel-2.6.32-754.3.5.el6.x86_64 - CentOS Bug > Tracker > > | > | > | > | | | > > | > > | > | > | | > 0015186: Cannot boot with kernel-2.6.32-754.3.5.el6.x86_64 - CentOS Bug > ... > > > | > > | > > | > > > Ed > > > On Saturday, September 8, 2018, 2:38:58 PM EDT, Brian Bernard < > brian.brianbernard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, > > Ever since I updated my CentOS 6 machine from 6.9 to 6.10 Xorg will not > start with the 2.6.32-754 kernels. Instead the computer will reboot. This > issue does not exist with the 2.6.32-696.30.1 kernel from CentOS 6.9 that I > still have on my system. > > Has anyone else encountered this issue, and if so, how did you rectify it? > > Thank you for any help. > > Brian Bernard > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos