Kernel panic: Fatal exception on nvidia 680i chipset/quad core/esx 3.5 install... HELP!

[southpaw]

So I decided to bite the bullet and install 3.5 and sit down to install it on a nice quad core (core 2 duo) Q6600 processor, 8GB ram, 300GB of ultra320 scsi to start with...

During the install of aic79xx driver i get

Oops: 0000

CPU: 0

EIP 0060: blah blah blah (not tainted)

Call Trace info

Kernel panic: Fatal exception

In interrupt handler - not synching

anyone??? bueller??

[southpaw]

UPDATE: So, in browsing around the community and also google i found that some would type debug at the install prompt it would bypass this error.. it did for me as well.. i was able to get past the kernel panic and since it was happening during the display of loading the aic79xx driver i figured ther emight be a driver problem... install got to the drive i wanted to install ESX to and showed my 15krpm 38gb drive just fine... sitting now watching the paint dry at 87% complete... will post more after reboot (crossing fingers, toes, hair, etc)

No BIOS updates for my motherboard... i was hoping to use this nvidia 680i board with a quad core and 8gb ram and that would allow me to buy something 'newer' on the motherboard front (like a 780i chipset) board...

just saw a red character message saying to use noapic during the first boot... i am seeing

Loading vmklinux

Loading configuration

1.vmkernel succeeded

Loading VMkernel forcedeth.o (options: '')

and it is just sitting there

[DArndt]

If you use the degub option to install noapic will be appended to your boot parameters, you can disable it if your chipset works properly without noapic. I am running 3.5 on a Sun Ultra 40M2 and had similiar issues when installing.

Dave

[southpaw]

Thanks... got through that but things just sit there now showing it sucessfully loaded the vmkernel and then it appears to be loading the nvidia drivers... i had a 570 chipset board that run ESX 3.01 just fine... was hoping that the 680i would work as well... i can actually just go pickup a cheap 570i board and stick this 39320 adaptec in it and some ram to start my testing... would actually save me a TON of $$$ anyway...

thx