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From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Wojciech Sobczak <Wojciech.Sobczak@comarch.pl>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IBM x440 problems on 2.4.20 to 2.4.20-rc1-ac3
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 07:22:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3270000.1051712524@[10.10.2.4]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01d601c30f17$f3ffadf0$b312840a@nbsobczak>

> 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.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-30 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-30 12:56 IBM x440 problems on 2.4.20 to 2.4.20-rc1-ac3 Wojciech Sobczak
2003-04-30 14:22 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2003-04-30 14:50   ` Wojciech Sobczak
2003-04-30 15:18     ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-05-05  9:35       ` Wojciech Sobczak
2003-05-06  0:41         ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-04-30 18:36     ` Jack F. Vogel
2003-05-03 16:02       ` Alan Cox
2003-04-30 14:29 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-30 17:45 ` john stultz
     [not found] <fa.g8lvrtk.1ljcjgg@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.n5c25ld.cl09r3@ifi.uio.no>
2003-05-03 18:14   ` john stultz
     [not found]   ` <200305031813.h43ID6p6008799@www.pagan.org.uk>
2003-05-04 16:00     ` Alan Cox

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