From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3 Description of problem: Kernel panic when mounting the cdrom on a Dell 2850/EM64T on kernel verion 2.4.21-27.0.2. This does not happen on 2.4.21-15. root@walter:~# mount /mnt/cdrom Message from syslogd@walter at Tue Jan 25 13:18:53 2005 ... walter kernel: Kernel panic: pci_map_single: high address but no IOMMU. Jan 25 12:35:59 walter kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Jan 25 12:35:59 walter kernel: hda: attached ide-cdrom driver. Jan 25 12:35:59 walter kernel: hda: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33) Jan 25 12:35:59 walter kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 Jan 25 12:35:59 walter kernel: Kernel panic: pci_map_single: high address but no IOMMU. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.21-27.0.2.EL.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. mount /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom Actual Results: Kernel panic: pci_map_single: high address but no IOMMU. Additional info:
Glen, are you using the correct (ia32e) kernel? For RHEL3, you need to be using kernel-2.4.21-27.0.2.EL.ia32e.
Did not see the ia32e rpm. Thanks!
Glen, does it work for you now? If so I'll close this as NOTABUG.
Thew ia32e kernel works fine. Please close. Thanks again.