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
----- Message from kprice@nowyouknow.net --------- Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:56:58 -0500 From: Ken Price kprice@nowyouknow.net Reply-To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 Core 2 Duo Install freezes To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
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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