Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 fails to boot on Dell R530 with the message "Your hardware is unsupported"
Issue
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 fails to boot on Dell R530 with the message "Your hardware is unsupported". Following message is seen on the console
UNSUPPORTED HARDWARE DEVICE: Intel CPU model
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WARNING: at kernel/rh_taint.c:13 mark_hardware_unsupported+0x39/0x40() (Not tainted)
Hardware name: PowerEdge R530
Your hardware is unsupported. Please do not report bugs, panics, oopses, etc., on this hardware.
Modules linked in:
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 #1
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8106e2e7>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x87/0xc0
[<ffffffff8106e37f>] ? warn_slowpath_fmt_taint+0x3f/0x50
[<ffffffff8109f399>] ? mark_hardware_unsupported+0x39/0x40
[<ffffffff81c2d9e2>] ? setup_arch+0xb57/0xb7a
[<ffffffff8150d0d1>] ? printk+0x41/0x48
[<ffffffff81c27c33>] ? start_kernel+0xdc/0x430
[<ffffffff81c2733a>] ? x86_64_start_reservations+0x125/0x129
[<ffffffff81c27438>] ? x86_64_start_kernel+0xfa/0x109
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Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 update 4
- Kernel 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64
- Dell PowerEdge R530
- Intel CPU E5-2600 V3
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