[ale] Installing RH onto a IBM PC Server 704

Jonathan Glass jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu
Mon Oct 27 17:45:16 EST 2003


John Cole wrote:

>Howdy all!
>
>Here's an update.  I got Redhat 7.3 working but only in non-SMP mode!
>:(:(:(.  That's the whole point of using 4 processors!
>
>Does anyone have any ideas about this now that I know it's not the SCSI?
>(and the fact that Gentoo bombs on bootup in SMP mode).
>
>Thanks,
>John Cole, TICSA
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I've had issues with certain SCSI cards (embedded) and motherboards when 
running in SMP mode.  It didn't matter which kernel I ran, the box would 
freak out and die whenever the SCSI card came online.  Are you 100% sure 
it is not the SCSI card?

Jonathan Glass



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