Re: Installation problem with tyan mainboard

[Mattias Wadenstein <maswan@acc.umu.se>]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Brian Chase wrote:

> Try Fedora Core 3 x86-64 or Mandrake 10.0 or better, they both have 
> AMD64 SMP kernels.

What does SMP have to do with this? It is an mptfusion problem, at least 
mine, and it started somewhere between 2.6.5 and debian's 2.6.8.1. That is 
as far as I have gotten so far.

/Mattias Wadenstein

> Mattias Wadenstein wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Thierry Dumont wrote:
> >
> > > I cannot install debian-amd64 on my Tyan based machine.
> > > This problem looks like a previous one, posted here some weeks ago.
> > >
> > > PROBLEM: instalation "freeze" after loading the scsi driver.
> > >
> > > BUT: actually, I have succeded one installation (3 weeks ago); after 
> > > upgrading the system (and the kernel) some days ago, I could not reboot. 
> > > So, I decided to reinstall...When the system whas working (before I 
> > > upgraded
> > > it), it was also difficult to reboot the machine, with a lot of "retry"
> > > of the scsi driver during the boot sequence.
> >
> >
> > Yes, I have similar problems. I have not gotten a modern kernel running on 
> > it.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > 4) I load mptscsih ....
> > >
> > > and here, the machine freezes.
> > >
> > > any idea ?
> >
> >
> > Yes, I have seen this. I have no solution so far. Can you see if an 
> > upstreams kernel have the same problem?
> >
> > /Mattias Wadenstein