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! > > > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by the Enhancion system Scanner and is believed to be clean. http://www.enhancion.net