Re: Dell SC1435

[Martin Marcher <martin.marcher@openforce.com>]

OK,

a little update from myself,

I managed to get the installer running by disabling framebuffer and  
setting iommu=soft

you can find the options with the help screens being smart i managed  
not to write it down and/or remember the value for the framebuffer.

However, KEEP WAITING.

it seems that for some reason it takes ages to find hardware etc.  
Also it's pausing for several seconds between screens (is that  
related to iommu=soft - I couldn't find an option to enable iommu in  
bios, google suggests that quite a few motherboards have that option).

 * Network configuration over dhcp works fine
 * but it doesn't find any disks.

So after getting it to boot my nightmares came true and etch doesn't  
seem to support the disks. If there's something to know about please  
let me know :)

after searching google a bit more without useful results i just tried  
to load all modules on the installer cd so I wouldn't miss anything.  
No go, disks aren't recognized

/martin

Am 12.03.2007 um 16:10 schrieb Martin Marcher:

> Am 12.03.2007 um 15:39 schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez:
>
> > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 03:25:00PM +0100, Martin Marcher wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > does anyone have experience wether Edgy will work with the amd64
> > > option of this Server?
> > Why not ask on an Ubuntu list?  If you meant Etch (I'm hoping you  
> > did),
> > then yes Etch supports amd64 just fine.
>
> Hehe, yes etch, got enough trouble with ubuntu on the desktops.
>
> Well, yes amd64 support seems to be fine at least until the etch cd  
> halts.
>
> I booted with the the following options (it just came here while I  
> was writing the first mail):
> linux
> expert
> linux aic7xx=no_reset hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false noapic nolapic
>
> however it just sits there with the last messages being:
> Trying to move old root to /initrd ... okay
> Mounted devfs on /dev
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 116k freed
> Setting up filesystem, please wait ...
>
>
> well I am waiting (about 15 minutes now) and nothing happens. I'll  
> try a few other options but in the meantime
>
> /martin
>
> PS: sorry for the private posting. gotta get used to my new mail  
> client :(
>
>
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