Dell 260 runs RH7, panics on RHEL 4

[Steve Gaarder]

I tried that - no improvement; it still blows up.

thanks,

Steve

> From: <ksonmez at tai.com.tr>
> Subject: RE: Dell 260 runs RH7, panics on RHEL 4
>
>
> Hello Steve,
> I have a similar problem with HP xw9300
>
> When the prompt is displayed: boot: _
> At the boot prompt, enter   linux acpi=off
>
> Koray
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Steve Gaarder
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 11:11 PM
> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Dell 260 runs RH7, panics on RHEL 4
>
> I have a Dell Optiplex 260, a P4 box with 1 GB of memory.  It's been
> running Red Hat 7 for years.  When I try to boot the Red Hat Enterprise 4
> install disk, the kernel panics.  WHen I move a hard drive containing a
> RHEL4 installation to this machine and boot it, the kernel panics.
> Knoppix will not boot either.  Memtest86 ran overnight without any errors.
> I'm flummoxed!  Any ideas?
>
> thanks,
>
> Steve Gaarder

Steve Gaarder
System Administrator, Dept of Mathematics
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
gaarder1 at math.cornell.edu