Tom wrote: >On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Eric Anderson wrote: > > > >>Tom wrote: >> >> >> >>> Just to be complete, there are already a whole bunch of machines that >>>will not boot 5.x, irregardless of the ACPI issues. I've never been able >>>to boot 5.x with ACPI on or off, on any of the 5 Dell PowerEdge 6350 >>>servers I have here, even though they run 4.9 perfectly. I have a PR open >>>on it. >>> >>> So even without the ACPI issues on some hardware, there are still other >>>reasons why 5.x is going to fail to boot. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Are you using a PERC in those boxes? I've seen issues with PERC >>controllers on 5.1, but 4.8 worked fine. I received a patch, which >>fixed it, but it's a bit hard to install the os, and then rebuild world >>without rebooting the machine. :) >> >> > > Well, there are so many kinds of PERC cards. Some are just Mylex cards. >Others are MegaRAID. I think they use some Adaptec now. > My troubles were with the MegaRAID variant, I'm not sure about the others.. > Either way, I tried booting the install CD with all cards disconnected, >just to see if I could get the installer up to the main menu. No go. The >display switches off as soon as sysinstall starts probing devices. It >appears to panic, but the display is dead. Once I was able to use >scrolllock at the critical moment just before the kernel starts >sysinstall, and prevent the display from switch off, but when I release >the scroll lock, I was at the DDB prompt. Not good. > > First - I hope you mean the cards are physically OUT of the machine - it seemed to me that if they had a logical disk configuration on the card, it would hang. Although, it sounds like your problem is different. Actually, it kind of sounds like it thinks you are doing the "-p" boot thing to check for keyboard and roll over to the serial port. Other than that, I'm out of ideas (doesn't take long for that to happen though!).. :( Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology All generalizations are false, including this one. ------------------------------------------------------------------Received on Wed Dec 03 2003 - 10:30:18 UTC
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