I have several Xeon SMP boxes (Poweredge 2650's) running the fedora SMP kernel. The trick seems to be to add "nousb" and "noapic" to the boot parameters in /etc/grub.conf. On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 06:41, Michael D. Setzer II wrote: > 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) > >
