Problem in installtion RHEL 4 on ML570 G4

[mohammad_h]

Hi all,
I installed RHEL 4 AS on ML570 G4 server (3250M RAM, 4 processors), during the installation process every thing went smoothly and I faced no errors. But when I reboot the machine to do post configuration using the SMP kernel, system reached "Uncompressing kernel OK" and hanged up, nothing but the flushing cursor. When I used the Uni-processor, system boots but cat /proc/cpuinfo reveals one processor!!!
How can I boot the system using the SMP kernel???

[Stuart Browne]

Which update, and what kernel revision?

If you can boot up on the uni-processor, can you 'up2date' to get the newer kernel? Do they work?

[mohammad_h]

Version 4 AS without update and I re-install the system with RHEL ES version 4 with kernel 2.6.9-EL and also the kernel 2.6.9-ELsmp did the same thing... Is there any kernel parameters we have to pass it to the anaconda??

[Stuart Browne]

Any particular reason you're using the original release, and not one of the updates?

I'm guessing the issue would be resolved with one of the newer kernel releases (It's at something like 2.6.9-55.EL).

And, no. I'm not aware of any boot-strings you could pass.

[mohammad_h]

Hi Sturat,
Thanx for help but it was a booting-string issue.
"linux acpi=off nolapic dd"

That was the magic combination

Regards
Mohammad