Michael,

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Michael Mansour wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Most of yesterday I spent time installing SL.40.042005.i386 onto a couple of 
> my rack systems. One of them uses a Hyperthreading CPU which I've used under 
> HT mode without issues under SL3.
> 
> However SL40 (aka the vendors newer kernel) has major issues running in HT 
> mode (UP mode works fine), and just has a hard lock-up during the boot 
> process, where the only thing that can be done is to press the power off 
> button.
> 
> I've tracked this down to a bugzilla filed for FC3:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla-old/show_bug.cgi?id=146921
> 
> where I get _exactly_ the same issue this guy reported. I disable the 
> various services where the hard lock-up occurs, and it gets past them but 
> then on the login prompt, after entering the username and password the 
> prompt just sits there and you can't login.
> 
> After alot of trouble-shooting on this problem, I tracked it down to the 
> ACPI support, once I put in:
> 
> acpi=off
> 
> into the kernel grub command line, the system booted and runs fine in HT 
> mode. From that bugzilla report, it doesn't look like anything has been 
> fixed with that bug yet.

Thanks for reporting this.  I am sure it will make someone else's life 
easier in the future.

> 
> On a side note, I also experienced that "kernel openafs anaconda" problem 
> when burning those ISO's above and installing them onto my rack servers (the 
> error reported by another guy earlier in this list). The way I got round 
> that problem was to do a vanilla "server" install on selection menu (without 
> specifying the packages I wanted and didn't want), and SL40 installed, I 
> then went back into the packages and selected/deselected what I wanted.
> 
> Do I need to download the new ISO's (042505) and re-install these newly 
> built machines with these ISO's? or is the ISO set I have fine?

I have uploaded a new set of iso images with the openafs kernel module fix 
in it.  So you need to download the new set and use those.

> 
> Michael.
> 

-Connie Sieh