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BIOS corrupted error on HP DL common servers after installing Avaya Linux

Condition

BIOS corrupted error on HP DL common servers after installing Avaya Linux. This issue occurred when the system restarted.

Cause

The problem is that the BIOS must normally release the performance counters. Instead, the BIOS holds them and updates them for itself. This will not affect the system performance, rather when attempting to measure the performance, things might not appear reliable.

Solution

Informational messages added in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 do not affect the normal usage of the system. Kernel version 2.6.32-131.0.15.el6 or later includes a fix which allows the performance events subsystem to load when using these servers, but only using the same counter that the BIOS uses. Performance counter (profiling) data may be unreliable due to the HP ProLiant BIOS design. You can ignore these messages per HP Advisory c03265132.