You might want to try and build a CentOS 4.3beta kernel and see if that fixes the problem.
The SRPM is at:
http://beta.centos.org/centos/4.3beta/os/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-27.EL.src.rpm
No idea if it will help or not.
James Pearson
On 14/01/06, Fong Vang sudoyang@gmail.com wrote:
I have a couple of 64-Bit Xeon's with CentOS 4.2 x86_64 installed on them. They don't all have the same motherboards.
I've having a difficult time getting CentOS 4.2 x86_64 to boot on some of them in SMP mode (UP works fine). After the installation of CD, it boots up but kernel panics with the following error:
Badness in i8042_panic_blink at drivers/input/serio/i8042.c:992
This is the call trace:
apic_timer_interrupt+133 vgacon_cursor+0 oops_end+64 release_console_sem+369 error_exit+0 :scsi_mod:scsi_delete_timer+19 :3w_9xxx:twa_interrupt+1323 do_IRQ+197 mwait_idle+86 cpu_idle+26
The Uni processor works fine.
I tried the SMP kernel from Fedora Core 4 x86_64 which works fine as well. Any idea what's going on here? I've already tried disabling as many things from the BIOS as possible.