Woohoo! I got it working! The problem was that the firmware needed to be upgraded. I thought I had accomplished that the previous night, but apparently it wasn't successful. I never saw any mention of firmware upgrades in the install notes or anything (though I could just have overlooked it). It might be nice if, in the next version of the install notes, we recommended running the newest firmware. It certiainly would have saved me some frustration. I haven't yet been able to get an SMP kernel to work, which is unfortunate because it means I've got 3 unused CPUs. In fact, getting kernel 2.4 to work at all, SMP or not, was very difficult. I haven't yet gotten a locally built kernel to boot, though hopefully the one building now will change that. The Debian SMP kernel seems to die when trying to spawn init. The non-SMP kernel boots OK, but oopses at least once before reaching the login prompt on the console. Once it's there, things seem OK. I'll try to verify tomorrow that the hardware is OK before asking for further help with the SMP stuff. Finally, would one of these machines be useful to the Debian project? I've got several of them available to me, and it probably wouldn't be any trouble for me to host them. They're pretty beefy boxes, although they don't have much in the way of disk space (the one I've got now has 3 4 gig disks). It seems like they'd make really good general purpose servers or buildd systems. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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