[gentoo-dev] kernel trouble on Dell 2650

[gentoo-dev] kernel trouble on Dell 2650

[ben]

pls forgive if this is the wrong forum for this question:

Am trying to install on a Dell 2650 (serverworks dual P4, not immeaditly
sure which chipset) with perc raid.  for some reason, i cannot get the
gentoo-sources kernel to boot if it's compiled with smp.  This was blamed
on the RAID in the foums, but i've since found that the ac tree and the
redhat tree (it's their code for the raid driver) boot just fine in smp
mode (although, ofc, neither of these have XFS support, and so both panic
as soon as they try to mount /).  I've also tried ripping the aacraid code
out of the ac kernel and dropping it into the gentoo-sources one, but the
same thing occurs.

Can someone point me at the next thing to investigate here?  am wondering
if it's the chipset, as the boot always dies approx 10 seconds into the
bootstrap, regardless of which particular part of the kernel is being
loaded at that point.

Thanks,

Ben


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Re: [gentoo-dev] kernel trouble on Dell 2650

[ben]

Dean  - can you forward me your kernel config?

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Dean Bailey wrote:

> I have a PowerEdge 2650 with a Perc3, works like a champ. I know the perc3 I use
> is based on MegaRAID, the Qlogic ISP driver will cause the machine to crash just
> a warning. I use gentoo-sources on it too with no problems. Dual XEON P4 2.0ghz.
> I dont know if XFS works properly on it, but I know ext3 runs like a champ on
> it.  Hope this helps a bit.
>
>


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RE: [gentoo-dev] kernel trouble on Dell 2650

[Ciaravino, Tido]

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(sorry if this is a duplicate)

i've been tracking similar issues with the new 1.4 boot CDs

see gentoo bugzilla bug 11095 (and vote for it!!!)

short version:
i've gotten it to work properly with the vanilla-sources
and xfs-sources - but something in the gentoo-sources
causes my machine to lock hard (regardless of hyperthreading)

My boxes are Dell PE2650 with dual 2.4G xeon 2Gig Ram & aacraid (xfs on top)
(hyperthreading can be turned on/off in the bios)

Hope this helps,

odiT

-----Original Message-----
From: ben [mailto:ben@stonehenge-net.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 11:46 PM
To: Dean Bailey
Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] kernel trouble on Dell 2650


Dean  - can you forward me your kernel config?

On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Dean Bailey wrote:

> I have a PowerEdge 2650 with a Perc3, works like a champ. I know the perc3
I use
> is based on MegaRAID, the Qlogic ISP driver will cause the machine to
crash just
> a warning. I use gentoo-sources on it too with no problems. Dual XEON P4
2.0ghz.
> I dont know if XFS works properly on it, but I know ext3 runs like a champ
on
> it.  Hope this helps a bit.
>
>


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