[CentOS] CentOS 5.1 Core 2 Duo Install freezes

Ken Price kprice at nowyouknow.net
Sat Feb 9 03:48:27 UTC 2008


One more note, which explains why I posted on the CentOS list:
I have no problems installing Fedora 8, or Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 on these  
boxes.  I haven't tried CentOS4.6, but that's not an option.  I need  
CentOS 5.X.

I've been using CentOS from the beginning of the project.  I won't  
consider another distro in production systems.

-Ken

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     Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:56:58 -0500
     From: Ken Price <kprice at nowyouknow.net>
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> Alrighty.  I'm having a hell of a time and I need help.  I'll try to
> give as much information as possible.
>
> ----------
> HARDWARE
> ----------
> MB:
> Supermicro PDSBM-LN2+
> Intel 946GZ
> ICH7R + Intel® 82573
>
> Memory:
> Crucial 512Mb, 1Gb, 2Gb modules matched to above MB.
>
> Processors:
> Intel Celeron 420 Conroe-L, 1.6GHz 512KB 64-bit
> Intel Core 2 Duo E6320, 1.86Ghz 4Mb 64-bit
> Intel Pentium E2140 Allendale (Dual Core), 1.6GHz 1M 64-bit
>
> Hard Disks:
> Various Western Digital and Seagate SATA Drives
> ----------
>
> ----------
> BIOS (Rev 1.0 as well as Rev 1.0a)
> ----------
> Disabled Native Mode
> Disabled Native Mode with ACPI
> Enabled SATA Native Mode
>
> ----------
> KERNEL PARAMS (singularly and combination)
> ----------
> acpi=off, pci=nommconf, pci=bios, nohz=off, noapic, nolapic,
> pci=routeirq, maxcpus=1
> ----------
>
> ATA_PIIX loads at startup, sometimes ACPI depending on my BIOS
> settings.  Always after verifying dependencies, and typically during
> the disk format process, the installation freezes.  I get a "kernel
> panic - not syncing" in text mode.  Single disks, dual disks, LVM,
> no-LVM, software RAID, even when disks are on a Promise SATA300-TX4.
> The single-core Celeron processors work fine, but none of the dual core
> processors work.  I'm using 5 sets of hardware, so bad hardware is
> unlikely.  I'm stumped.
>
> Anyone out there with similar problems and/or workarounds?  Any ideas?
>
> -Ken
>
>
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