SMP program with Dell PowerEdge 2500
Jay Daniels
drs at pointyhats.com
Sun May 2 11:41:06 UTC 2004
Just rebooted and I suspected it was the USB module. System always
hangs while loading modules.
I will try swapping my USB mouse over to PS2 and see if nousb works.
jay
On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 02:41:11PM -0400, Chris Allermann wrote:
> I have several Xeon SMP boxes (Poweredge 2650's) running the fedora SMP
> kernel.
>
> The trick seems to be to add "nousb" and "noapic" to the boot parameters
> in /etc/grub.conf.
>
> On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 06:41, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> > 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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