Kernel Panic during installation of RHEL 6.5 on servers with Mellanox mlx4 based NIC
Issue
- When installing the OS on servers with a Mellanox NIC, the installer (Anaconda) goes into kernel panic at the stage of loading mlx4_en.
- Backtrace may show a hang in mlx4_en_ptp_overflow_check+0x44
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
- Mellanox NIC
- mlx4_en module
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