Peter Kjellstrom wrote: > On Friday 18 June 2010, Jerry Geis wrote: > >> Peter Kjellstrom wrote: >> > ... > >>> More information would also be nice (like dmesg output). >>> >>> /Peter >>> >>> >>>> I'd rather not go through the process again of putting a newer kernel >>>> on the machine and having something different out there than "stock" >>>> centos. >>>> >>>> Jerry >>>> >> more /proc/cpuinfo is showing: >> more /proc/cpuinfo >> processor : 0 >> vendor_id : GenuineIntel >> cpu family : 6 >> model : 37 >> model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 430 @ 2.27GHz >> > ... > >> dmesg is : >> >> Linux version 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 (mockbuild at builder10.centos.org) (gcc >> version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)) #1 SMP Thu May 13 13:08:30 EDT >> 2010 Command line: ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet noapic acpi=off apci=off >> > > I think this is the problem, acpi=off, that will (if I remember correctly) > essentially disable smp. > > /Peter > > >> BIOS-provided physical RAM map: >> > ... > I added the "noapic acpi=off and apci=off" as without them the install processs died. I dont have the exact message any longer. jerry