kernel panic: mageia2 on Asus-g73sw w. two 1tb drives

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I just installed Mageia2-586 for a 'looksee' but need to write this from a suse partition. The Mageia installation went fine (the 2nd time around because the 1st one was numbering partitions 1 short) but I cannot boot it. This kind of kernel panic has also been seen with the suse system on this laptop now & then ..it may be a hardware related though there is no problem with the hardware. I installed to partition #13

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 44042239 22020096 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 44042240 88082431 22020096 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 88082432 132122623 22020096 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 132122624 1953525167 910701272 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 132124672 136318975 2097152 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 136321024 220207103 41943040 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda7 220209152 387981311 83886080 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda8 387983360 432023551 22020096 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 432025600 476065791 22020096 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 476067840 520108031 22020096 83 Linux
/dev/sda11 520110080 564150271 22020096 83 Linux
/dev/sda12 564152320 608192511 22020096 83 Linux
/dev/sda13 608194560 652234751 22020096 83 Linux
/dev/sda14 652236800 1903525167 625644184 83 Linux
/dev/sda15 1903527216 1953525167 24998976 83 Linux