Re: Booting Etch on a Proliant 8000 (6 CPU)
On Wednesday 23 January 2008 16:36, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Monday 21 January 2008, Mateo Obregon wrote:
> > > >> > We did manage to get it to load a Debian Sarge Netinst CD, but
> > > >> > this kernel only uses 1 CPU.
> >
> > UPDATE: I installed the SARGE packages (because the ETCH GCC 4 compiler
> > would not compile the 2.6.8 kernel) and recompiled 2.6.8 with SMP
> > (Pentium III XEON) and it is working fine so far.
> >
> > But, what could be the difference with the 2.6.18 kernels that make this
> > machine reboot in the booting of 2.6.18?
>
> I'm afraid that we are not the right people to answer that question. The
> differences between the 2.6.8 kernel and 2.6.18 are _huge_.
> The most likely reason is that more recent kernels just haven't been tested
> the hardware you have and that a regression has been introduced at some
> point that has not been noticed.
>
> Your best option is to report your issue in the kernel bugzilla [1] so that
> the upstream kernel developers, but that only makes sense if you're willing
> to follow up on it. They will most likely ask you to try a current kernel
> (2.6.23 or 2.6.24) and to try to pinpoint when exactly the regression was
> introduced.
>
> I'm afraid there are no easy solutions for issues like this and there is
> little we in Debian can do about them.
Thanks for the reply. I will try a new kernel to see what the matter is, since
this is an important piece of hardware for us.
Mateo.
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