FIRMWARE BUG – THE BIOS HAS CORRUPTED HW-PMU RESOURCES

If you’re trying to install CentOS 7 on HP server and you receive the error from the caption, don’t worry – you’re not alone. According to Google, there are about 48400 results related to this topic

The fix is still not available and according to HP, the problem is related to “Processor Power and Utilization Monitoring” function which should be disabled to fix this mess.

Affected servers:
– All ProLiant Gen8 Servers
– ProLiant DL580 G7
– ProLiant BL620 G7
– ProLiant BL680 G7

How to disable “Processor Power and Utilization Monitoring”:
– enter BIOS (press F9 during boot)
– press CTRL+A (Service Option is hidden by default)
– select “Service Options” -> Processor Power and Utilization Monitoring -> Disable

Press F10 to save and exit and reboot the server.

More information can be found on the next links:
https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5493
http://h20565.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?sp4ts.oid=5227546&docId=emr_na-c03265132&lang=en&cc=us

 

转自：http://www.serveradminblog.com/2015/04/firmware-bug-the-bios-has-corrupted-hw-pmu-resources/