SMP program with Dell PowerEdge 2500

[Chris Allermann]

I have several Xeon SMP boxes (Poweredge 2650's) running the fedora SMP
kernel.

The trick seems to be to add "nousb" and "noapic" to the boot parameters
in /etc/grub.conf.

On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 06:41, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> I've setup my classroom with dual-boot Windows/Fedora Core 1, but 
> this was done outside of the class due to the time it took to setup all 
> the machines. Today, I brought  in a Dell PowerEdge 2500, and 
> swapped out the normal drives with  a new 36GB drive. Installed 
> from the two CD's that came with a Book, since this machine didn't 
> have a DVD drive. Install went thru fine, but it would not boot with 
> the smp kernel. It booted fine with the non-smp one. Went ahead, 
> and installed all the upgrades, and downloaded the last 2188 kernel 
> in both regular and smp. Rebooted with the smp kernel, and again it 
> locked. It locked will it said loading local drives. So, I did and 
> Interactive boot with the SMP kernel, and just went enter for all the 
> prompts, and it came up fine. Tried rebooting, and it locked again 
> with a normal process. It is locks with the local drive message, and 
> mouse and everything is locked. Not even num locks. It has a PERC 
> 3 controller, and I'm wondering if something is happening two fast 
> with a regularboot up, but the step by step puts in enough of a delay 
> to avoid this. I don't think it was using a special driver for the PERC, 
> since I only saw adaptec 7700 message.
> 
> Thanks.
> P.S. It has dual Pentium III Xeon 1GHz Chips and 512MB of ECC 
> memory. 
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