Hi Connie,

> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've recently rebuilt some of my DL360's from earlier releases to SL4.3
> > 
> > With the HP Proliant DL360's (generation 1) single CPU units, they refuse to
> > boot the latest 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL kernel, but boot fine from the earlier
> > 2.6.9-34.EL kernel.
> > 
> > There's no kernel panic from the boot screen, just hangs on boot and the
> > machine has to be power cycled.
> > 
> > On exactly the same model servers but with an extra CPU, booting off the
> > latest SMP kernel boots fine.
> > 
> > Any ideas how I can troubel-shoot this one?
> > 
> > I've yet to disbale the "quiet" boot mode to see exactly where it hangs. I've
> > also yet to try to boot an SMP kernel on a UP server to see if it would
> > actually work.
> 
> If hyperthreading is turned on try turning it off.

There's no hyperthreading on these machines. 1Ghz PIII cpu's.

> Also could try
> 
>    linux noapci

I'll definately try that and let you know.

Michael.

> -connie