I've setup my classroom with dual-boot Windows/Fedora Core 1, but this was done outside of the class due to the time it took to setup all the machines. Today, I brought in a Dell PowerEdge 2500, and swapped out the normal drives with a new 36GB drive. Installed from the two CD's that came with a Book, since this machine didn't have a DVD drive. Install went thru fine, but it would not boot with the smp kernel. It booted fine with the non-smp one. Went ahead, and installed all the upgrades, and downloaded the last 2188 kernel in both regular and smp. Rebooted with the smp kernel, and again it locked. It locked will it said loading local drives. So, I did and Interactive boot with the SMP kernel, and just went enter for all the prompts, and it came up fine. Tried rebooting, and it locked again with a normal process. It is locks with the local drive message, and mouse and everything is locked. Not even num locks. It has a PERC 3 controller, and I'm wondering if something is happening two fast with a regularboot up, but the step by step puts in enough of a delay to avoid this. I don't think it was using a special driver for the PERC, since I only saw adaptec 7700 message. Thanks. P.S. It has dual Pentium III Xeon 1GHz Chips and 512MB of ECC memory. +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu Number of Seti Units Returned: 13,199 Processing time: 27 years, 334 days, 3 hours, 1 minutes (Total Hours: 244,539)
