ACPI problem in RHEL 5

[prit...@gmail.com]

Hi all,

I have AMD Athlon 5200+ with ASUS motherboard. I have Windows XP and
RHEL5 in multi boot o/s. I am facing a serious problem. When I start
RHEL5, It shows "Kernel Panic" because of ACPI option is Enabled in
bios. System suggests to use "noapic" kernel argument to start. If I
disable ACPI from power option of bios. RHEL starts perfectly. But
Windows XP stops responding when I restart in Windows. So what is the
permanent solution?

Priti agrawal
Student
B.E(Computer Science)

[Alok Thaker]

use no apic line of kernel i n grub....it would automatically boot the
rhel with no acpi...

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[shah hemal]

Post the Error from /var/log/error message and kernel messages too.

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--- On Fri, 11/14/08, prit...@gmail.com <prit...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Nirmal Pathak]

2008/11/14 prit...@gmail.com <prit...@gmail.com>

Add 'acpi=off' or 'noapic' option in grub.conf in kernel line. This should work for you!
 

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[prit...@gmail.com]

Hi all Experts,

I have disabled ACPI from BIOS, Now my RHEL5 is working fine. But Now
my XP o/s is not booting, It should work after Enabling ACPI option
from BIOS setup. But Now my windows is not starting at all. I once
again formatted and reinstalled both the operating system. But again I
got same problem repeatedly. I am so confused. Is there any problem of
Hdd or Mainboard? Guide me.

[ElectroMech]

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 1:31 PM, prit...@gmail.com <prit...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all Experts,

Do not say Experts, we all are sharing our knowledge, If you say somebody say I am expert then it might be the end of learning process .??
 

I have disabled ACPI from BIOS, Now my RHEL5 is working fine. But Now
my XP o/s is not booting, It should work after Enabling ACPI option
from BIOS setup. But Now my windows is not starting at all. I once
again formatted and reinstalled both the operating system. But again I
got same problem repeatedly. I am so confused. Is there any problem of
Hdd or Mainboard? Guide me.

Add 'acpi=off' or 'noapic' option in grub.conf in kernel line. This should work for you!

open your /boot/grub/grub.conf and as suggested by Mr. Nirmal Pathak add the following.

title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-92.el5)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.el5 ro root=/dev/vol0/root rhgb quiet acpi=off
        initrd /initrd-2.6.18-92.el5.img

or try

title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-92.el5)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.el5 ro root=/dev/vol0/root rhgb quiet noacpi noapic
        initrd /initrd-2.6.18-92.el5.img
 

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