Kernel Panic - not syncing: pCI-DMA :high address but no IOMMU error

Tuxbuddy — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 06:25:42 GMT

am in verse to install RHEL 4 Update 3 on the following machine:
HP Proliant System BIOS - 109
1. Dual AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2218 @ 2.60 Ghz(1 mbyte L2)
2. Dual AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2218 @ 2.60 Ghz(1 mbyte L2)

During the installation the Boot CD asked me for type of Installation and I chosed "graphical".
IT got stucked at the point:

running install...
running /sbin/loader
Kernel Panic - not syncing: pCI-DMA :high address but no IOMMU error

Any Idea Why its Showing the error?

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Re: Kernel Panic - not syncing: pCI-DMA :high address but no IOMMU error

dirk dierickx — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:08:09 GMT

according to the thread on the redhat site you can add 'pci=nommconf' to the kernel boot params to avoid this crash.

read more here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=169115

if that doesn't work i would also try to add 'noapic' as a param.

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Re: Kernel Panic - not syncing: pCI-DMA :high address but no IOMMU error