From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT; Lexmarkie501021500) Description of problem: After a problem free installation of RH 7.3, the first SMP boot dies with: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 218k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Red Hat nash version 3.3.10 starting Loading scsi_mod module SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 Loading sd_mod module kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errnno = 4 Loading DAC960 module DAC960: ***** DAC960 RAID Driver Version 2.4.11 of 11 October 2001 *** DAC960: Copyright 1998-2001 by Leonard N. Zubkoff <lnz> - Kernel boot stops proceeding at this point - The hardware is a new Tyan 2466MPX Dual Athlon motherboard with 4Gb ram, a Mylex AccelRAID 352 controller using the DAC960 module with 6x 80Gb U160 SCSI HDD's in a RAID 0+1 hardware config. Processors are 2x Athlon MP2000 All Redhat stock single processor kernels (2.4.18-3 thru 2.4.18.18)work just fine on this system. The kernel hang occurs only on stock SMP kernels 2.4.18-3 thru 2.4.18-18. I have checked my install media with md5sums - all matches ok Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Clean install of RH 7.3 2. Reboot into any SMP kernel 2.4.18-3 thru 2.4.18-18 3. Kernel boot stops proceeding Actual Results: Kernel boot doesn't complete rendering the system unusable. Expected Results: System should have completed booting. Additional info:
ah a tyan can you try adding 'noapic' the the kernel command line? (eg the vmlinuz line for the smp kernel in /boot/grub/grub.conf)
Thank you for resolving this issue. I am using LILO. My default boot image name is "linux" which corresponds to the default SMP boot kernel. I added the following line to my /etc/lilo.conf file: append="noapic" This worked provided that I had the append statement in a line previous to the "initrd='your_initrd.img" line within lilo.conf.