Quoting Mateo Obregon (mateo_obregon@fidic.org.co): > Hello- > > We have not been able to get any of the Etch installer images to boot on a > Compaq Proliant 8000 (6 Pentium III XEON CPUs, 3GB RAM, Compaq Smart Array > controller). The machines abruptly resets just after "SERIO ..." messages. > > It was running Mandrake Enterprise 8.1 with a hitch before (kernel 2.4, > cpqarray) > > We did manage to get it to load a Debian Sarge Netinst CD, but this kernel > only uses 1 CPU. > > We have tried many combinations of "acpi=off", noapic, nolapic, nosmp, debug, > but none of these kernel options have worked with Debian Etch. > > I imagine that we can use aptitude to upgrade all packages to the latest > stable release, and compile a new kernel, but what options should we select > for this kernel to run the 6 CPUs? Have you tried with Kenshi Muto's unofficial images that use the last kernels from unstable (2.6.22 or 2.6.23): http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/
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