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<FONT COLOR="#000000">AN ERROR IS SHOWING UP AT BOOT TIME. It seems to be a BUG:</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) notwithin permissible range</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Red Hat nash version 5.1.19.6 starting</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Welcome to CentOS release 5 (Final)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">....</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">.....</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">and continues normal booting.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Any idea how to deal with it.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Please not that it has 4 CPUs.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Thanks a lot,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">- Chandra</FONT>
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Check the Release Notes. It is apparently harmless. I see it on all my CentOS 5.1 machines.<BR>
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B.J.<BR>
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Ubuntu 7.10, Linux 2.6.22-14-generic unknown 07:57:57 up 21:37, 2 users, load average: 0.15, 0.15, 0.13
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