To the Centos maintainers:
We tried to install Centos 4.4 i386 (i686 / Athlon) on a Dual Opteron 254 Iwill DK8N MB, 1GB (4 x 256M) system with a 3ware 9500S-4 and 4 x 80 GB disks in a RAID 10 array.
Both tries caused Centos to first kernel panic until we turned off IO-APIC in the BIOS.
Both tries also only loaded the UP kernel and did not load the smp kernel on the machine.
The smp kernel was not even installed on the machine. The BIOS see 2 cpu's and so did 4.3. There seems to be a CPU qty discovery problem during install.
When the smp kernel is installed from rpm it works fine and even enables numa properly.
We used the Net boot i386 iso image and loaded the machine from over the network.
We then tried the x86_64 version with the same results.
Any suggestions???
Seth Bardash
Integrated Solutions and Systems 1510 Old North Gate Road Colorado Springs, CO 80921
719-495-5866 719-495-5870 Fax 719-337-4779 Cell
http://www.integratedsolutions.org
Failure can not cope with knowledge and perseverance!
Rather than looking at an install bug [which is entirely feasible], I would look at the BIOS on the motherboard itself and see if there is a later version first...
P.
Seth Bardash wrote:
To the Centos maintainers:
We tried to install Centos 4.4 i386 (i686 / Athlon) on a Dual Opteron 254 Iwill DK8N MB, 1GB (4 x 256M) system with a 3ware 9500S-4 and 4 x 80 GB disks in a RAID 10 array.
Both tries caused Centos to first kernel panic until we turned off IO-APIC in the BIOS.
Both tries also only loaded the UP kernel and did not load the smp kernel on the machine.
The smp kernel was not even installed on the machine. The BIOS see 2 cpu's and so did 4.3. There seems to be a CPU qty discovery problem during install.
When the smp kernel is installed from rpm it works fine and even enables numa properly.
We used the Net boot i386 iso image and loaded the machine from over the network.
We then tried the x86_64 version with the same results.
Any suggestions???
Seth Bardash
Integrated Solutions and Systems 1510 Old North Gate Road Colorado Springs, CO 80921
719-495-5866 719-495-5870 Fax 719-337-4779 Cell
http://www.integratedsolutions.org
Failure can not cope with knowledge and perseverance!
There have been no updates to the BIOS since 6/15/2005.
Why would this work fine under Centos 4.3 x86_64 and i386 and have a problem under 4.4?
Seth Bardash
Integrated Solutions and Systems 1510 Old North Gate Road Colorado Springs, CO 80921
719-495-5866 719-495-5870 Fax 719-337-4779 Cell
http://www.integratedsolutions.org
Failure can not cope with knowledge and perseverance!
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Peter Farrow Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 3:19 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 4.4 Install bug
Rather than looking at an install bug [which is entirely feasible],
I
would look at the BIOS on the motherboard itself and see if there is a later version first...
P.
Seth Bardash wrote:
To the Centos maintainers:
We tried to install Centos 4.4 i386 (i686 / Athlon) on a Dual Opteron 254 Iwill DK8N MB, 1GB (4 x 256M) system with a 3ware 9500S-4 and 4 x 80 GB disks in a RAID 10 array.
Both tries caused Centos to first kernel panic until we turned off IO-APIC in the BIOS.
Both tries also only loaded the UP kernel and did not load the smp kernel on the machine.
The smp kernel was not even installed on the machine. The BIOS see 2 cpu's and so did 4.3. There seems to be a CPU qty discovery problem during install.
When the smp kernel is installed from rpm it works fine and even enables numa properly.
We used the Net boot i386 iso image and loaded the machine from over the network.
We then tried the x86_64 version with the same results.
Any suggestions???
Seth Bardash
Integrated Solutions and Systems 1510 Old North Gate Road Colorado Springs, CO 80921
719-495-5866 719-495-5870 Fax 719-337-4779 Cell
http://www.integratedsolutions.org
Failure can not cope with knowledge and perseverance!
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Seth Bardash wrote:
There have been no updates to the BIOS since 6/15/2005.
Why would this work fine under Centos 4.3 x86_64 and i386 and have a problem under 4.4?
There has been ACPI changes in the 4.4 kernel. Don't know what, don't know to what extent, don't know if it is intentional or not. But the 4.4 kernel from the upstream vendor does behave differently from earlier kernels in this department.
My guess is that they cleaned up some ACPI hackery, and some broken ACPI BIOSes are now not working. Remember, the upstream vendors primarily focus is probably not on broadest possible hardware support but on specs and stability. If I am able to free up my server that requires ACPI=off, I could install RHEL4 and pursue it with support.
There has been a few posts to this list about hardware not found or not working properly as a result, with acpi=off as the "solution". Not many, so it is not a big problem or maybe because acpi=off is such a common parameter to try with hardware quirkiness.
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