Alrighty. I'm having a hell of a time and I need help. I'll try to give as much information as possible. ---------- HARDWARE ---------- 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 ---------- ---------- BIOS (Rev 1.0 as well as Rev 1.0a) ---------- Disabled Native Mode Disabled Native Mode with ACPI Enabled SATA Native Mode ---------- KERNEL PARAMS (singularly and combination) ---------- acpi=off, pci=nommconf, pci=bios, nohz=off, noapic, nolapic, pci=routeirq, maxcpus=1 ---------- 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
Ken Price wrote:> Anyone out there with similar problems and/or workarounds? Any ideas?install using a serial console, and capture the entire kernel panic from the console if you can. Have you tried any disk controllers other than the promise ? For me, if hardware SATA raid, it's 3Ware or nothing. I haven't ever really noticed good things said about other SATA raid cards. nate
Ken Price wrote:> Alrighty. I'm having a hell of a time and I need help. I'll try to > give as much information as possible. > ... > Supermicro PDSBM-LN2+ > Intel 946GZIntel says the 'value-oriented' 946PL/GZ chipsets are 800/666Mhz FSB only, no support for 1066Mhz FSB. See http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/946PL_946GZ/index.htm Oddly, Supermicro claims they do support 1066.> ICH7R + Intel? 82573 > > Memory: > Crucial 512Mb, 1Gb, 2Gb modules matched to above MB.according to Intel, this chipset supports DDR2 667Mhz memory only. if you're using two dimms they should be matched pairs for dual channel operation?> > Processors: > Intel Celeron 420 Conroe-L, 1.6GHz 512KB 64-bit > Intel Core 2 Duo E6320, 1.86Ghz 4Mb 64-bitthis is a 1066Mhz FSB CPU, not compatible with that chipset at least according to Intel. actually, reading the Intel datasheet, it looks like the 946 chipsets were intended strictly as P4 chipsets, and Core2Duo support was an afterthought. I'd check with SuperMicro for more help on this.> Intel Pentium E2140 Allendale (Dual Core), 1.6GHz 1M 64-bitthis is a 800Mhz FSB CPU, it /should/ work.
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 at nowyouknow.net>
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Subject: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 Core 2 Duo Install freezes
To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> Alrighty. I'm having a hell of a time and I need help. I'll try
to
> give as much information as possible.
>
> ----------
> HARDWARE
> ----------
> 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
> ----------
>
> ----------
> BIOS (Rev 1.0 as well as Rev 1.0a)
> ----------
> Disabled Native Mode
> Disabled Native Mode with ACPI
> Enabled SATA Native Mode
>
> ----------
> KERNEL PARAMS (singularly and combination)
> ----------
> acpi=off, pci=nommconf, pci=bios, nohz=off, noapic, nolapic,
> pci=routeirq, maxcpus=1
> ----------
>
> 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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