Dual Xeon Problem

Arakon · n00b Joined: 01 Jul 2002 Posts: 16

The install fails to boot the kernal properly on RC 4

System Specs

Dual Xeon 2.4 Ghz
1 GB DDR RAM
Elsa Gloria DCC
Iwill DP533 motherboard

any ideas?

I am going to try RC 2 now.

Arakon · n00b Joined: 01 Jul 2002 Posts: 16

RC 2 doesn't recognize my built in Ethernet adapter.

Back to Mandrake for me.

foshdawg · n00b Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 63

how about going a little more in-depth with your problem...not booting can mean a whole BUNCH of stuff.

salimfadhley · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2003 7:29 am Post subject:

I think the mandrake community deserves this guy!

:-)

Only joking... or am I?

Lycander · Guru Joined: 10 Apr 2003 Posts: 468

Um... user error? If your NIC card works in Mandrake than I wold imagine the drivers are in the kernel sources. Are you building it as a module and putting the module name in modules.autoload? Usually when you have a problem with a device driver and you built it into the kernel, rebuilding it as a module and loading it might solve the problem.

Arakon · n00b Joined: 01 Jul 2002 Posts: 16

Hows this, booting the RC 4 CD, the SMP kernel always results in a system halt or a bad CRC (from 2 seperate downloads, different mirrors) and booting the normal gentoo kernel always results in a non responsive system at "Freeing unused Kernel memory: 104k freed"

its not frozen, its just not going anywhere.

talk about bitter ppl, go take a chill pill.

I've never gotten a response like that on a Mandrake board.

I was mostly expecting a response about a bug or something i couldn't find in the documentation, because I have booted other linux distributions fine. ie I have yet to get the gentoo system to a prompt. the RC 2 image i tried seemed to work okay until it refused to recognize my ethernet adaptor and it kept locking when I tried to mod-probe it.

salimfadhley · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2003 1:47 pm Post subject:

No... we just LOVE our Gentoo Linux.

Anyway, can I suggest that you use your working Mandrake or Redhat installation and do a /sbin/lsmod.

Unlike Gentoo, Mandrake and Redhat only ever come with totally modular kernerls. Any working kernel modules will show up in the module list. When you come to compile your gentoo kernel you can remember to include those modules.

Vxster · n00b Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 66 Location: London, UK

I had problems on a Dell PowerEdge (dual Xeons) with lock-ups and multiple mod-probe problems with RC3 and 4. RC2 worked fine and I just checked /proc/pci for my NIC and modprobed it fine.

Arakon · n00b Joined: 01 Jul 2002 Posts: 16

NEVERMIND!!!

Woot I found the answer to my problem with booting RC_4

OKay you have to boot using the ACPI!!!