Summary: | 2005.1 Universal Install CD does not proceed on Compaq Proliant 5000R Server | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Release Media | Reporter: | Dean Malandris <plexus> |
Component: | Everything | Assignee: | Gentoo Release Team <releng> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | critical | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | x86 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Dean Malandris
2005-08-27 04:49:13 UTC
Why are you doing all of those memory-related options? There's also a *ton* more options you could be using. For one, you cannot disable APIC on SMP, so you will need to disable SMP if your APIC is bad on that board. I would suggest trying: gentoo-nofb doscsi acpi=off noapic nosmp nolapic (In reply to comment #1) > Why are you doing all of those memory-related options? > > There's also a *ton* more options you could be using. For one, you cannot > disable APIC on SMP, so you will need to disable SMP if your APIC is bad on that > board. > > I would suggest trying: > > gentoo-nofb doscsi acpi=off noapic nosmp nolapic The reason I use the memory arguments is because it's a Proliant 5000. The BIOS on the Proliant 5000 and 2500 (could be others) incorrectly reports the total RAM installed as 16MB, no matter how much you have installed. The machine has 896MB of RAM so I used the command gentoo mem=exactmap mem=640k@0m mem=895@1m to compensate for that. I did this with the Gentoo 1.4 LiveCD and the thing booted, found the ncr53x825 controller, loaded up the cpqarray module for the SMART-2DH Array Controller, and took me to a command prompt ready to commence an install. This was using kernel 2.4.20 in SMP mode - the exact line was "gentoo doscsi mem=exactmap mem=640k@0m mem=895@1m". Doing the same thing with the 2.6 kernel and using the "memmap" syntax instead of "mem" (which I believe is the correct thing to use with 2.6) results in nothing booting at all, and the system hanging. Oooops - that line should have read "smp doscsi mem=exactmap mem=640k@0m mem=895@1m" when I got it started with the Gentoo 1.4 LiveCD and kernel 2.4.20 Could you try the new 2005.1-r1 CD? We updated the kernel revision on the CD, so it might resolve this issue. There have been 2 media releases since this was reported and no response from original poster. I'm going to assume that this has been resolved as nobody else has reported/verified it. If this bug is still present in the 2006.0 release media, please REOPEN this bug. |