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

Wed Jun 25 11:43:20 UTC 2008
Mikael Fridh <mikael.fridh at its.uu.se>

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. Maybe add a note there that
> > you have the same issue and report your system config. It looks likes
> 
> I have added a note about the problem on ProLiant3000 machine and dmesg output from
> working kernel.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Thank you,

Added to the bug also, my guests kernel panics in Qemu (P/PII/PIII).

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Fridh