On 3/21/06, Scott Silva <ssilva@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is this a name brand server or a whitebox?
>
NEC Express5800/TM710
> Maybe if you have details on what hardware is in it.
>
The motherboard is an ASUS P4C800-E. The error message showed during
the kernel panic was, apparently, about the chipset present on that
mainboard.
> Does it by any chance have a nvidia chipset?
>
Intel chipset.
> Will it boot with kernel options like -noapic or -noht
>
See below
> Maybe a check for a bios update on the system not in production.
>
BIOS is the latest available on the NEC website.
After having answered all those questions :), believe it or not, but
on my test machine, I did an upgrade to CentOS 4.3 and tried to reboot
and.... it worked !!!
I've done the same thing on the production server and, not
surprisingly, it worked too. I don't know what happened but I guess
there were a missing/not updated package that caused the kernel panic.
The file is closed for me :).
Thanks to all the people who answered my message.
Regards,
Gilles, a happy CentOS admin :).
