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

[Wojtek Pilorz]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:59:36AM +0200, Wojtek Pilorz wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 09:49:08AM +0200, Tim Verhoeven wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Wojtek Pilorz <wpilorz at bdk.pl> 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.
> > >
> > ...snip...
> > You are definitalty  not alone on this. See http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2912.
[...]
> > it only happens on older PII and PIII machines.
> And then only some of them - home home PC with PIII runs fine
> with the new kernel.
> I will upgrade 2 more machines with PII or PIII and see what will happen.
OK, just for the record, I have upgraded 3 more machines to CentOS5.2
- a P4 Compaq D51S - new kernel runs OK
- a PII Compaq Deskpro EN - new kernel runs OK
- another 2*PIII Compaq ProLiant 3000 server - kernel crashes (somewhat expected, as the machine
  is almost identical to that I initially reported)

Best regards,

Wojtek