RHEL 6 fails to boot on a system with an Nvidia NVS 300 graphics card

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

We just received some machine with NVS 300 graphic cards and RHEL 6.2 cannot be installed on them. An error message is observed:

[     2.230133] [drm:drm_edid_block_valid] *ERROR* EDID checksum is invalid, remainder is 128

followed by a Raw EDID hex dump of EDID data.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 prior to 6.3
  • Nvidia NVS 300 graphics card

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