Miskell, Craig spake the following on 6/8/2006 5:25 PM: > Hi, > I recently took delivery of a bunch of HP BL25p blades to add to > my collection. I am attempting to install Centos4 x86_64 using PXE - > the initial PXE DHCP stuff works, and the kernel and initrd are > downloaded, but the server then immediately clears the screen and > displays: > "1706-Smart Array Controller Extended BIOS Data Area Memory Corrupted > Array Controller Interrupt 14h BIOS Cannot Continue > System Halted" > > It's pretty obvious what the problem probably is (the kernel nukes some > bit of memory that it shouldn't, or that the smart array hasn't properly > marked as reserved), but I don't know what to do to fix it. I have also > tried: > 1) The i386 kernel and initrd images > 2) The RedHat AS4 kernel/initrd images > 3) The Centos3 i386 kernel and initrd images > 4) Downgrading the System ROM BIOS and Smart Array BIOS (as shipped it > had the latest versions) to versions up to a year old. > 5) Playing with memmap to exclude mem from 610-640K from being used by > the kernel. > > Booting from CD works, but is suboptimal (I have to type the kernel > kickstart options, and I don't want to have to do that 16 times, plus I > want easy repeatability in future). If you can't resolve this, make a custom boot cd with your kickstart file and the proper kernel options in it. It will at least get your hardware in service. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!