RHEL 4 and HP dx5150

[Rick Stevens]

On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 15:52 -0300, Mauro Gasparri wrote:
> 
> I'm having problems when installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 ES
> Update 3 on HP dx5150 (Athlon64, SATA disk, ATI chipset). 
> 
> Everything goes right on the graphical setup wizard, but before
> beginning copying the files (just after formatting /boot partition), I
> receive this message: 
> 
> install exited abnormally 
> sending termination signals...done 
> disabling swap... 
> etc 
> etc 
> etc 
> you may safely reboot your system 
> 
> I tryed: 
> 
> - Basic install 
> - Full install 
> - linux noprobe 
> - linux nofb 
> - linux acpi=off 
> - linux ide=nodma 
> 
> Fedora Core 4 works perfect. 
> 
> Please, any help would me appreciated. 

Try "linux noapic" and see how that works.  It's not uncommon for the
BIOS to muck up the APIC routing.  You should also see if there's a BIOS
update for the machine.

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