Unable to boot kernel on ANY Compaq system

[David Nedrow]

Jack,

These are old DL360 and nothing in SmartStart indicates the have USB 
ports.

I can get FC2 to install if I replace the default kernel in the install 
image with one I've built myself.

I'm 95% sure now that the problem I'm having with booting the default 
kernel (pre/post install) is that the driver for the embedded Smart 
Array controller is never being loaded. In fact, if I boot the install 
on ANY Compaq with a Smart Array (whether embedded or on-a-card), the 
install fails to boot.

If I boot my custom kernel, I see the kernel detect the array and load 
the cpqarray driver, but I don't see this happen with the kernel that 
is shipped with Fedora (1, 2, 3T1).

-David

On Aug 11, 2004, at 17:02, Jack Bowling wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 12:48:44PM -0700, Kevin Wang wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 15:45:19 -0400, David Nedrow <listbox at nedron.net> 
>> wrote:
>>> No other theories out there?
>>>
>>> Note that even though I didn't specifically mention it, I have tried
>>> the uniprocessor kernels with no change.
>>>
>>> Also tried ide=nodma with no change.
>>>
>>> -David
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 9, 2004, at 15:04, David Nedrow wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have been unable to install or boot FC2, FC3T1, or devel using the
>>>> default kernels on ANY Compaq system that I have access to. The
>>>> Compaqs are DL360s, 1850's, and 4500s with SMART array controllers 
>>>> and
>>>> 896 meg of RAM.
> <snip>
>
> Note that with most Compaqs, you must ensure that the option to "Enable
> legacy USB support" is turned off in the BIOS to install linux. Look 
> for
> something like that and nuke it to see if things improve.
>
>
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> Jack Bowling
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