[CentOS] Centos 5 problems on Shuttle XPC

[Bob Chiodini]

Gernot Stocker wrote:
> Hi,
> does somebody else experience booting problems after normal installation on 
> SD32G2 based Shuttle systems. A CentOS 5.0 installation can be performed 
> without any problems but after the first reboot the systems are just stopping 
> the boot process after the grub is searching for the kernel. The last line is some-
> thing like: [ Linux-initrd @ 0x37db8000, 0x237858 bytes].
> We tried already the newest update of the CentOS 5 kernel, the newest centosplus 
> kernel and also FC6 kernel with always the same result. No error message, 
> nothing! Unfortunately we have 15 machines of this type which should be installed 
> with Linux ASAP (and no, I was not asked when somebody else has bought these
> machines). 
> Every hint or experience with such system is welcome, thanks,
>   Gernot
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Gernot,

A stock answer:  Try turning off APIC on the kernel command line in 
GRUB.  Try noapic and/or acpi=off.

Please tell us more about the configuration..

Bob...