C410X With M2090 or M2075 GPGPUs installed causes RHEL 6.1 or 6.2 to Kernel Panic.

To all,

If you have recently purchased a C410X with M2075 or M2090 GPGPUs or installed these GPGPUs an existing C410X  setup and have RHEL 6.1 or 6.2 installed on the Dell PE server and you now have a Kernel panic. The following instructions will fix your Kernel panic.

1. Remove the C410X iPASS/HIC cable from the server and Reboot the server. 

2. Log in as Root

3. At the # prompt type : #cd /boot/grub  ( or this can be done from your favorite GUI file browser )

4. At the # Prompt type: #vi grub.conf ( or this can be done with your favorite GUI text editor )

5. Add the following to the end of the kernel line : rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.modeset=0

6. reboot

grub.conf Example:

title RHEL (2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.x86_64) root (hd0,0)

 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.x86_64 .... rdblacklist=nouveau nouveau.modeset=0 

initrd /initramfs-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.x86_64.img