Re: Bug in SLES8 kernel 2.4.x freezing HP DL740/760

[Matthias-Christian Ott]

Oliver Antwerpen wrote:

> Hi out there,
>
> If there is anybody out there using SLES8 on HP ProLiant DL740/760:
> BEWARE!
>
> SuSE has patched UNICON into the kernel which will cause these servers 
> to hang when booted with vga=normal. The system will run fine in 
> fb-mode, but not in plain text.
>
> I cannot see, where this UNICON-patch comes from, it seems that is has 
> been developed by some turbolinux-coders.
>
> HP and SuSE have not been able to either fix this problem or at least 
> warn someone about this bug, so I will do it now.
> The bug is known since Nov 13th 2004.
>
> If there should be anybody who can help, please contact me.
>
> I hope this information will help someone to not run into deep trouble.
>
> Oliver Antwerpen
>
>
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Well if you don't need unicon, then remove the patch from the .spec file 
and rebuild the kernel (from the source rpm). Or report it their bug 
tracking system.

Matthias-Christian Ott
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