On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Ichihara Takashi wrote:

> Hi
>
> We have three Dell DIMENSION C521 PC's (Dual core Athlon 3800+,
> NForce 430 chipset with the AM2 socket) for user terminals.
> http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/dimen_c521?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
>
> The full installation of SL 4.5 X86_64 for three C251 PC's was
> successful. I just tried to install SL 5.0 X86_64 on this PC's.
> The booting of the SL5 x86_64 DVD-iso soon hung up after leaving
> the following messages on the screen. This is common to all
> three C521 PC's.
>
>
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.0 to 64
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:10.0 to 64
> NET: Registered protocol family 2
> IP route cache hash table entries: 82768 (order: 2, 62144 bytes)
> TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
> TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
> TCP reno registered
> Simple Boot Flag at 0x3a set to 0x80
> audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
> audit(1183652298.099:1): initialized
> Total HugTLB memory alloated, 0
> VFS: Disk quota dquot_6.5.1
> Dquot-cache hash tables entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 byte)
> SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
> Initializing Cryptographic API
> ksign: Installing public key data
> Loading keyring
> - Added public key 2E0F5039C112972
> - User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key)
> io scheduler noop registered
> io scheduler anticipatory registered
> io scheduler deadline registered
> io scheduler cfg registered (default)
> (PC hung at this point)
>
>
> Is there any method to solve this problem ? Thank you for
> the information.

Try booting with

    noapic acpi=off

-Connie Sieh

>
> Best Regards,
> Takashi Ichihara (RIKEN)
>