Precision 5820/7820/7920 Tower systems with Red Hat Linux may present a Kernel Panic during boot up
Summary: You might encounter a Kernel Panic pointing to the Dell WMI driver when booting to Red Hat with SATA or SAS solid state drive
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Resolution
Summary: "Precision 5820/7820/7920 Tower systems with Red Hat Linux may present a Kernel Panic during boot up".
Kernel Panic pointing to Dell WMI Driver.
You might encounter a Kernel Panic, (A computer error from which the Linux operating system cannot quickly or easily recover. Similar to a Blue Screen Error in Windows.) pointing to the Dell WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) driver when booting to Red Hat with SATA or SAS solid state drives (SSD’s) installed as the boot disk.
Solution.
Disabling the Legacy Option ROMs option in the system BIOS setup resolves this issue.
Affected Products
Precision 5820 Tower, Precision 7820 Tower, Precision 7920 Tower, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 7Article Properties
Article Number: 000176959
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 23 Apr 2025
Version: 8
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