You might want to try and build a CentOS 4.3beta kernel and see if
that fixes the problem.
The SRPM is at:
http://beta.centos.org/centos/4.3beta/os/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-27.EL.src.rpm
No idea if it will help or not.
James Pearson
On 14/01/06, Fong Vang <sudoyang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a couple of 64-Bit Xeon's with CentOS 4.2 x86_64 installed on
> them. They don't all have the same motherboards.
>
> I've having a difficult time getting CentOS 4.2 x86_64 to boot on some
> of them in SMP mode (UP works fine). After the installation of CD, it
> boots up but kernel panics with the following error:
>
> Badness in i8042_panic_blink at drivers/input/serio/i8042.c:992
>
> This is the call trace:
>
> apic_timer_interrupt+133
> vgacon_cursor+0
> oops_end+64
> release_console_sem+369
> error_exit+0
> :scsi_mod:scsi_delete_timer+19
> :3w_9xxx:twa_interrupt+1323
> do_IRQ+197
> mwait_idle+86
> cpu_idle+26
>
>
> The Uni processor works fine.
>
> I tried the SMP kernel from Fedora Core 4 x86_64 which works fine as
> well. Any idea what's going on here? I've already tried disabling as
> many things from the BIOS as possible.
