Description of problem: RHEL4.4 GA crashes on install on 16 core systems. So far this behavior has been confirmed on Rev F 8p/16c system and on Barcelona (GH) 4p/16c system. RHEL4.3 GA with an IDE drive installs and runs, so this is a regression. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.9-42.EL How reproducible: Everytime Reproduced separately on two systems, Rev F 8p/16c and GH 4p/16c Steps to Reproduce: 1. Copy boot.iso into a CD 2. boot: linux askmethod Actual results: Kernel panic occurs with this backtrace APIC_init_uniprocessor() acpi_ds_init_one_object() setup_local_APIC() Expected results: Install and run without incident Additional info: There was a RHEL4.4 version that worked on Rev F 16 core system at the time of RHEL4.4 development. This was verified on Lion 16 core system by AMD.
Bhavana, do you have a backtrace? P.
Prarit, no I don't have a back trace. Are you planning on investigating the crash? I didn't think the missing patch was going to be added to RHL4.4.
The workaround is to install OS with boot: linux noapic nolaoic On reboot you will find that noapic is added to the grub.conf, edit and remove noapic and reboot. Please add this to the release notes in reference to Barcelona.
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