Installation of RHEL 5.5 or 5.6 fails on HP DL385G7 with kernel panic when more than 64GB of RAM present

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Issue

  • Installation of RHEL 5.5 or 5.6 fails on HP DL385G7 with kernel panic when more than 64GB of RAM present

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation iso for 5.5 or 5.6
  • HP DL385G7 with more than 64GB of memory

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