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