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 at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at 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! > > > > > > > > -- > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.4/449 - Release > Date: 9/15/2006 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.4/449 - Release Date: 9/15/2006