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Re: Install troubles -- ioapic.c NOT implemented

AndreTheGiant — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 05:24:38 GMT

If your BIOS and mother does not support APIC (or have a buggy implementation) you can try to disable it during installation and boot (noapic option).

Enabling Interrupts Preventing Install of ESXi?

Andre
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Re: Install troubles -- ioapic.c NOT implemented

automaticit — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:09:44 GMT

We have the same issue with ESXi 4. Intel D5400XS, BIOS level XS54010J, and our message in PSOD is similar:

NOT_IMPLEMENTED bora/vmkernel/hardware/ioapic.c:592

The problem likely has something to do with Intel's implementation of ACPI, because on the same board OpenSolaris will install but when booting the new installation off the hard disk it panics, and Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop complains about ACPI with "ACPI invalid PBLK length" messages but still installs, loads and runs.

"Hackintosh" Apple OS X however, reportedly installs and runs without problems on these boards. I've loaded Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop 64-bit onto this board and will use it to host KVM instead for our bake off, and will evaluate ESXi off a board selected from the ESX whitebox HCL list. Lesson learned: ESX is a lot more sensitive to hardware variances than Debian strains of Linux. If someone at VMWare wants to play around with a sample D5400XS board populated with processor, heatsink and RAM and with the power supply, we have an extra one we won't need on our bench for 4-5 months that we can lend for the engineers to poke and prod to see if they can figure out why ESXi won't load from it.

Re: Install troubles -- ioapic.c NOT implemented

Puster — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:27:49 GMT

Hi everybody,

has this problem ever been solved?

For right now I have the same problem here.

We are using an AMD-board though.

Thanx

Message was edited by: Puster

Re: Install troubles -- ioapic.c NOT implemented

msonic — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:17:34 GMT

I did flash to the latest BIOS and played with a number of settings such as configuring SATA as IDE, AHCI, RAID but I still PSOD during the install. I'm considering using Xen Server Xpress or Vmware Server 2 on Ubuntu as alternatives.

Thanx

Re: Install troubles -- ioapic.c NOT implemented

Dave.Mishchenko — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 08:28:25 GMT

You might want to ensure that you're running the latest BIOS for the MB.

Re: Install troubles -- ioapic.c NOT implemented

msonic — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:53:02 GMT

I am in the same boat right now, did you ever get this worked out with the Intel board?

Thanks,

Max

Re: Install troubles -- ioapic.c NOT implemented

nick.couchman — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:01:39 GMT

Check the BIOS and make sure the ACPI and APIC are enabled?

Install troubles -- ioapic.c NOT implemented

TomVleminckx — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:32:54 GMT

I just tried to install ESXi on a new machine, I get a purple screen saying:

NOT_IMPLEMENTED /build/mts/release/bora-110271/boravmkernel/hardware/ioapic.c:592

I tried Update 2 & Update 3 of ESXi, both have the same problem.

I guess I have a hardware incompatibility, but no clue where to start? disk, motherboard, nic ...

fyi the machine is based upon an intel D5400XS board with 2 quad core xeon processors.

thanks in advance,

Tom