One more note, which explains why I posted on the CentOS list:
I have no problems installing Fedora 8, or Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 on these
boxes. I haven't tried CentOS4.6, but that's not an option. I need
CentOS 5.X.
I've been using CentOS from the beginning of the project. I won't
consider another distro in production systems.
-Ken
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Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:56:58 -0500
From: Ken Price <kprice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: CentOS 5.1 Core 2 Duo Install freezes
To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
Alrighty. I'm having a hell of a time and I need help. I'll try to
give as much information as possible.
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HARDWARE
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MB:
Supermicro PDSBM-LN2+
Intel 946GZ
ICH7R + Intel® 82573
Memory:
Crucial 512Mb, 1Gb, 2Gb modules matched to above MB.
Processors:
Intel Celeron 420 Conroe-L, 1.6GHz 512KB 64-bit
Intel Core 2 Duo E6320, 1.86Ghz 4Mb 64-bit
Intel Pentium E2140 Allendale (Dual Core), 1.6GHz 1M 64-bit
Hard Disks:
Various Western Digital and Seagate SATA Drives
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BIOS (Rev 1.0 as well as Rev 1.0a)
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Disabled Native Mode
Disabled Native Mode with ACPI
Enabled SATA Native Mode
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KERNEL PARAMS (singularly and combination)
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acpi=off, pci=nommconf, pci=bios, nohz=off, noapic, nolapic,
pci=routeirq, maxcpus=1
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ATA_PIIX loads at startup, sometimes ACPI depending on my BIOS
settings. Always after verifying dependencies, and typically during
the disk format process, the installation freezes. I get a "kernel
panic - not syncing" in text mode. Single disks, dual disks, LVM,
no-LVM, software RAID, even when disks are on a Promise SATA300-TX4.
The single-core Celeron processors work fine, but none of the dual core
processors work. I'm using 5 sets of hardware, so bad hardware is
unlikely. I'm stumped.
Anyone out there with similar problems and/or workarounds? Any ideas?
-Ken
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