[CentOS] CentOS 5.2 kernel [2.6.18-92.1.1.el5] crashes on dual-PIII Compaq ProLiant 3000

Thu Jul 3 21:24:00 UTC 2008
Wojtek Pilorz <wpilorz at bdk.pl>

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 06:56:12PM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> Wojtek Pilorz wrote:
> >After yum upgrade, the new CentOS5 kernel [ kernel-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.i686 
> >] crashes each time early in boot process on Compaq ProLiant 3000
> >with dual Pentium3 CPU (600 MHz, CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 
> >03, CPU1 the same).
> >
> >I get kernel panic at powernowk8_init+0x05e/0x1c3.
> >
> >The previous kernel [ kernel-2.6.18-53.1.21.el5.i686 ] seems to work fine.
> >
[...]
> 
> We have created a new test kernel that has an upstream patch to fix this 
> issue, please test this and see if it fixes your issues:
> 
> http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/kernel/5/bz443853/
> 
Yes,

the problem machine (Compaq ProLiant 3000) boots fine with this test kernel.

Thank you very much!

Wojtek