Bug 50764

Summary: PowerEdge 8450 hangs on up and smp kernel boot
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Dean Oliver <dean_oliver>
Component: kernelAssignee: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Dean Oliver 2001-08-02 21:49:12 UTC 
Description of Problem: 

  Kernel panic and hard freeze occurring on UP and SMP kernel boot. 

Enterprise kernel boots ok. 

6gigs ram, 6-733 processors, 2-18 gig hard drives on perc2/dc, 3944uw, perc3/qc, alteon cu, intel dual 100, intel e1000 cu.



How Reproducible:

  Every time.



Steps to Reproduce:

1. Installation from cdrom

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Actual Results:

  Kernel Panic and freeze before filesystems are mounted rw.



Expected Results:

  



Additional Information:
Comment 1 Dean Oliver 2001-08-02 21:57:20 UTC 
Created attachment 25991 [details]
ksymoops up kernel
Comment 2 Arjan van de Ven 2001-08-02 22:03:05 UTC 
0068: is the plug and play bios. So Intel can't program and managed to screw
up their bios.

Anyway, we disabled use of the PNPBIOS in 2.4.7-0.3 and later.
Comment 3 Arjan van de Ven 2001-08-03 11:56:48 UTC 
I could have been a bit more subtle in my response. This is the bios getting
a segmentation fault when asked about plug and play devices. I'll add this
bios to the "Have illegal plug and play code" list as well, this is the second
"bad bios" list the 8450 bios is getting on. If Dell is paying lots of money for 
this bios I would recommend reclaiming some of that due to poor quality.
Comment 4 Dean Oliver 2001-08-03 19:30:08 UTC 
fixed in 2.4.7-0.3