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Hi,
there is no panic with RHEL5-Install-CD.
Thank you for your informations. I know that i cant use this board with RHEL3.
Now i have understood where the problem seems to be located,
and at which point in the booting process the panic occurs.
Thanks,
Andre Schubert
On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:24:49 -0500
"Paul Krizak" <paul.krizak@(protected)> wrote:
> What happens if you boot from a RHEL4 or (preferably) RHEL5 install CD?
>
> Or FC7?
>
> I'm fairly convinced from what I've read so far that you're trying to
> put a square peg in a round hole -- RHEL3 simply does not work on
> cutting edge hardware, since it's been end-of-lifed. Your ASRock
> motherboard probably has some funky BIOS or chipset bits that are
> confusing the ancient RHEL3 kernel and causing it to panic.
>
> Paul Krizak 5900 E. Ben White Blvd. MS 625
> Advanced Micro Devices Austin, TX 78741
> Linux/Unix Systems Engineering Phone: (512) 602-8775
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>
>
> Andre Schubert wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > this panic occurs when booting from the RHEL3-Install-CD.
> > Based on your informations, i have disabled the onboard SATA-Controller
> > and installed a 3Ware raid-controller, but the panic always occurs.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Andre Schubert
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:26:54 -0500
> > "Paul Krizak" <paul.krizak@(protected)> wrote:
> >
> >> Weird.
> >>
> >> The "swapper" process was on the stack (as pid #1) when the system
> >> paniced. So perhaps the kernel is trying to initialize swap space using
> >> a poorly-supported SATA controller, or the wrong driver is getting
> >> loaded for your memory controller (remember, AM2 is DDR2, previous stuff
> >> was DDR1)
> >>
> >> Is this a fresh install of RHEL3? If you're able to do a fresh install
> >> but then the kernel panics on the first "real" boot (or panics when
> >> booting off the install CD) then we might be looking at a bug here.
> >>
> >> But if this was just a hardware upgrade, with no change to the OS
> >> already on the hard disk, then it may just be that the initrd doesn't
> >> contain the appropriate driver for your new memory controller or SATA
> >> controller. If this is the case, you'll need to boot from the rescue CD
> >> and do some initrd voodoo to get your system back up and running. Or,
> >> just do a fresh install.
> >>
> >> Finally, keep in mind that RHEL is designed for enterprise customers
> >> that can depend on hardware on the compatibility list to work. It
> >> sounds like you're trying to install RHEL on commodity desktop hardware,
> >> which is most likely not on the compatibility list. RHEL3 is *old*, and
> >> thus does not work well with new hardware. Big names like HP and Sun
> >> were able to get their new AM2-based workstations on the RHEL3
> >> compatibility list because they helped Red Hat by providing updated
> >> drivers for everything. "ASRock" probably did not do that.
> >>
> >> If this is for a home system, I'd recommend something like Fedora Core
> >> 7, which will have *much* better hardware support than RHEL3, but isn't
> >> necessarily an "enterprise" OS. If you *need* an enterprise OS, try
> >> RHEL5 and see if it works for you.
> >>
> >> Paul Krizak 5900 E. Ben White Blvd. MS 625
> >> Advanced Micro Devices Austin, TX 78741
> >> Linux/Unix Systems Engineering Phone: (512) 602-8775
> >> Silicon Design Division Cell: (512) 791-0686
> >>
> >>
> >> Andre Schubert wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> i have tried all these kernel parameters, nothing helped.
> >>> I also have tried to disable all the onboard-stuff and nothing helped.
> >>> The hardware is a ASRock ALiveSATA2-GLAN with VIA K8T890 Chipset
> >>> and a AMD Sempron 3200+ (64Bit).
> >>> I also have tried a ASUS-M2V with a AMD Athlon 3800+ wich also doesnt
work.
> >>> I also have tried the 64-Bit version with no luck.
> >>>
> >>> This is the RHEL3-i386-U9 kernel-panic, wich is always the same.
> >>>
> >>> Oops: 0000
> >>> CPU: 0
> >>> EIP: 0060:[<c010c539>] Not tainted
> >>> EFLAGS: 00010002
> >>>
> >>> EIP is at (2.4.21-50.ELBOOT/i686)
> >>> eax: 00000000 ebx: fffffed0 ecx: ffffffed edx: c02beed0
> >>> esi: 00000293 edi: 00000000 ebp: ffffffed esp: f7ff3f58
> >>> ds: 0068 es: 0068 ss: 0068
> >>> Process swapper (pid: 1, stackpage=f7ff3000)
> >>> Stack: ffffffed 00000000 c0312d40 c01c43ac ffffffed c36c1000 00000000
00000000
> >>> c0312d40 00000000 00000000 c01c4d96 c0312d40 00000001 00000001
00000001
> >>> 00000001 00000001 00000001 00000001 00000001 00000001 00000001
00000000
> >>> Call trace: [<c01c43ac>] (0xf7ff3f64)
> >>> [<c01c4d96>] (0xf7ff3f84)
> >>> [<c0107028>] (0xf7ff3fd8)
> >>> [<c0107036>] (0xf7ff3fdc)
> >>> [<c0107028>] (0xf7ff3fe0)
> >>> [<c0108fe1>] (0xf7ff3ff0)
> >>>
> >>> Code: ff 50 10 58 eb d3 90 57 56 53 8b 74 24 10 89 f2 c1 e2 04 8d
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Andre Schubert
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:30:58 -0500
> >>> "Paul Krizak" <paul.krizak@(protected)> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> We had issues getting RHEL3/4 to install on newer AMD-based hardware for
> >>>> various reasons. Try one of these on the kernel cmd line:
> >>>>
> >>>> * noapic nolapic acpi=off
> >>>> * pci=conf1
> >>>> * nmi_watchdog=0
> >>>>
> >>>> If you still can't get the kernel to boot, post the output here and we
> >>>> can take a look.
> >>>>
> >>>> What specific kind of hardware are you trying to install on?
> >>>>
> >>>> Paul Krizak 5900 E. Ben White Blvd. MS 625
> >>>> Advanced Micro Devices Austin, TX 78741
> >>>> Linux/Unix Systems Engineering Phone: (512) 602-8775
> >>>> Silicon Design Division Cell: (512) 791-0686
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Andre Schubert wrote:
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> i recently bought a mainboard with an AM2-socket.
> >>>>> Everytime i try to install RHEL3 U9 i got a kernel-panic during booting.
> >>>>> The kernel-panic is always the same and always reproducible.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> For testing purposes a had time to test another mainboard from a
different vendor,
> >>>>> with different ram/harddrives/cdrom etc., but the kernel panic is still
the same.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Are there any know issues on installing RHEL3 U9 on a AM2-socket
mainboard ?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I have absolutely no idea what to do next.
> >>>>> Hope someone could help me a little bit ?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Best regards,
> >>>>> Andre Schubert
> >>>>>
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