SMP program with Dell PowerEdge 2500

[Michael D. Setzer II]

I've setup my classroom with dual-boot Windows/Fedora Core 1, but 
this was done outside of the class due to the time it took to setup all 
the machines. Today, I brought  in a Dell PowerEdge 2500, and 
swapped out the normal drives with  a new 36GB drive. Installed 
from the two CD's that came with a Book, since this machine didn't 
have a DVD drive. Install went thru fine, but it would not boot with 
the smp kernel. It booted fine with the non-smp one. Went ahead, 
and installed all the upgrades, and downloaded the last 2188 kernel 
in both regular and smp. Rebooted with the smp kernel, and again it 
locked. It locked will it said loading local drives. So, I did and 
Interactive boot with the SMP kernel, and just went enter for all the 
prompts, and it came up fine. Tried rebooting, and it locked again 
with a normal process. It is locks with the local drive message, and 
mouse and everything is locked. Not even num locks. It has a PERC 
3 controller, and I'm wondering if something is happening two fast 
with a regularboot up, but the step by step puts in enough of a delay 
to avoid this. I don't think it was using a special driver for the PERC, 
since I only saw adaptec 7700 message.

Thanks.
P.S. It has dual Pentium III Xeon 1GHz Chips and 512MB of ECC 
memory. 
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  Michael D. Setzer II -  Computer Science Instructor      
  Guam Community College  Computer Center                  
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