Re: [SLE] Compaq and SuSE 8.2

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To: "pheonix1t" <pheonix1t@houston.rr.com>, "Donn aka n5xwb Washburn" <n5xwb@hal-pc.org>, "SuSE-linux-e List" <suse-linux-e@suse.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 02:01:26 -0400

On Thursday 31 July 2003 00:48, pheonix1t wrote:
> with compaq machines (servers for sure) I've learned to use their smart
> start CD's to prep the server. It makes a dos partition at the beginning
> of the disk and loads compaq utilities on there. I've lost count how many
> compaq servers I've setup this way with windows, novell, unix and linux.
> With the smart-start CD, it works like a charm! If you want, I have
> versions 5.5 and 6.2. I'll make an ISO out of them and send them to you

I already have them, back in the day I was the Compaq king, now that HP has
assimilated them I am more a Dell man now. From an earlier posting one guy
says it is your ACPI, try Kernel.org to see if you can get some Kernel
parameters to bypass this, another Option would be to compile woth Limited or
no ACPI modules.

> ... Do you have an FTP server?
> I've never installed a presario workstation...so I'm not sure it this would
> help. But for the servers, the smart start CD is the key!
>
> Take care,
>
> Oskar
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roberto Dohnert" <webwarrior@gnu-darwin.org>
> To: "Donn aka n5xwb Washburn" <n5xwb@hal-pc.org>; "SuSE-linux-e List"
> <suse-linux-e@suse.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 11:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [SLE] Compaq and SuSE 8.2
>
> > What OS did you have on it before, I had a similar problem when I
> > upgraded
>
> my
>
> > Presario from FreeBSD to SuSE Linux 8.0, for some reason SuSE install
>
> doesnt
>
> > like UFS partitioned drives, if this is your problem reformat it as a DOS
> > disk first then try your install.
> >
> > On Wednesday 30 July 2003 23:26, Donn aka n5xwb Washburn wrote:
> > > Hey Group;
> > >
> > > This is the first machine that I have tried to install SuSE on that
> > > failed on the CD boot. It failed on something just after the detection
> > > of the HD. An error message suggested turn of ACPI and I aslo added
> > > APIC. But the same failure. It locks up the machine and mention (as I
> > > remember) VFS.
> > >
> > > It is on a 4 to 5 year old Compaq Persario (SP) Pentium ? with VIIx4
> > > chipset Another reason not to buy a HP/Compaq..
> > >
> > > Note: he has a old SuSE 7.0 installed and it boots. There is a story
> > > about upgrading SuSE 7.0 today.
> > >
> > > Speaking of memories 7.0 versus 8.2.
> > >
> > > Any clues on how to solve this problem? Even KNOPPIX fails to boot.
> > >
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