Re: IBM x440 problems on 2.4.20 to 2.4.20-rc1-ac3

From: Martin J. Bligh (mbligh@aracnet.com)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2003 - 09:22:05 EST


> I'm trying to boot from linux kernel 2.4 tree
> i've installed rh 7.1 dist, but system seems only 3 procesors, so i made
> 2.4.20 kernel with smp without NUMA support and i saw 4 processors. Next
> 2.4.20 with numa support, and system hangs on mounting root filesystem (no
> scsi devices found, ide devices lost interruption, no keyboard found etc
> etc)
> Next 2.4.21-rc1-ac3 without NUMA, 3-processors available
> with NUMA support and summit/exa support and clustered apic support kernel
> boots, found scsi devices but hangs on it with lost interruption, also
> with ide devices and so on
> machine has 4 HT processors and 8GB of RAM
> any ideas or help?
>
> i don't wat to use 2.5.x kernel.....

SuSE works well, at least the SLES edition does.

I'm not sure that any of the other 2.4 kernels work properly, though I
can't say I've tried the latest updates to other distros - they might work,
but I doubt 7.1 does - that's very old.

M.

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