Why does an IBM x346 with a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 installation freeze on the last line and hang on system reboots?

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Release Found: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Symptom:

IBM x346 hardware freezes on the last line of system reboots with BIOSes older than March 13, 2006.

Solution:

IBM has patched their BIOS to fix this issue. Go to

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