[olug] Suse 9.1/Compaq ProLiant 6000-Boot Sector

[neal rauhauser]

 Did you fire this thing up with a non SMP kernel? That might work
wonders ... on some machines you can just pull the second processor,
some refuse to boot without the complement of CPUs. My Pentium Pro boxes
work fine in single processor mode, my Quad Xeon systems won't even
twitch without all four in place.


dthacker9 at cox.net wrote:
> 
> Yes, it's a dual pIII.
> DT
> >
> > From: neal rauhauser <neal at lists.rauhauser.net>
> > Date: 2004/06/01 Tue AM 05:46:40 EDT
> > To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> > Subject: Re: [olug] Suse 9.1/Compaq ProLiant 6000-Boot Sector
> >
> >
> >
> >  Is it a multiprocessor box? I've had eight multiprocessor Proliants of
> > various models and exactly *one* behaves with an SMP kernel.
> >
> >
> > Dave Thacker wrote:
> > >
> > > On Monday 31 May 2004 11:28, Dave Thacker wrote:
> > > > I'm trying to install Suse 9.1 on my Compaq Proliant 6000.  All the drives
> > > > are under the control of the Compaq Raid Controller.  On my first attempt,
> > > > CD 1 loaded, the machine rebooted and hung without a prompt.  On my second
> > > > attempt I took a closer look at the boot settings on the setup menu and
> > > > noticed that Suse wanted to install grub on the MBR.  For my second attemp,
> > > > I changed the location of grub to the /boot partition which is at /dev/isa/
> > > > c0d0p0.   I'm now getting a grub prompt, but it can't seem to find the
> > > > kernel.
> > >
> > > Progress, sort of.  I've told Suse to put grub on the / disk at c0d0p0.  I now
> > > get a grub prompt, but the system hangs immediately after starting tty
> > > logging.   I still haven't found the "right" place for everything.  BTW, if
> > > there is a HOWTO on this, I'd appreciate a link.  I've GTFI for a long time
> > > today, but all the configs I've seen differ in some major way from mine.
> > >
> > > DT
> > >
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