kernel panic during Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 installation on Dell Optiplex 740 with ATI FirePro 2450 card
Issue
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Installing RHEL 6 on a Dell Optiplex 740 with ATI FirePro 2450 graphics card gives the following panic :
[...] Non-volatile memory driver v1.3 Linux agpgart interface v0.103 agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: Intel 965Q Chipset agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: detected 7676K stolen memory agpgart: unable to get minor: 175 agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: agp_frontend_initialize() failed general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP last sysfs file: CPU 0 Modules linked in: Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 #1 OptiPlex 745 [...] -
Installation proceeds without issues if the ATI card is removed.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Dell Optiplex 740
- ATI FirePro 2450
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