I am having a lot of problems installing SuSE 7.2 on a Abit BP6 | 440BX dual processor celeron motherboard running UMDA66. The install seems to work okay in yast1. I am doing a minimal install, and selecting the non-SMP 2.4 kernel. The root partition is on /dev/hde2 and lilo is written to the MBA on dev/hde. lilo writes out okay. After installation when the system is first booted everything was core dumping and I could not log in. I restarted the system and now when I boot I get 'System Halted'. Has anybody had any luck with this motherboard and using udma? Thanks for any help.
Hello, Jesse. Erm, wouldn't you want to select the SMP kernel if you are running a dual Celeron setup ? The SMP kernel is the multiprocessor kernel as opposed to the single processor kernel. Or is there something about Dual Celerons and SMP kernels that I am about to learn ? Bye for now, Stuart. -----Original Message----- <snip> I am having a lot of problems installing SuSE 7.2 on a Abit BP6 | 440BX dual processor celeron motherboard running UMDA66. The install seems to work okay in yast1. I am doing a minimal install, and selecting the non-SMP 2.4 kernel. </snip>
Stuart Powell writes:
Hello, Jesse.
Erm, wouldn't you want to select the SMP kernel if you are running a dual Celeron setup ? The SMP kernel is the multiprocessor kernel as opposed to the single processor kernel. Or is there something about Dual Celerons and SMP kernels that I am about to learn ?
From my experience when things don't go right, then try the non-SMP kernel. And things definitely did not go right. I am trying to find out where the problem is now. I think it may be the UDMA controller which is on the ABIT BP6.
Bye for now, Stuart.
-----Original Message----- <snip> I am having a lot of problems installing SuSE 7.2 on a Abit BP6 | 440BX dual processor celeron motherboard running UMDA66. The install seems to work okay in yast1. I am doing a minimal install, and selecting the non-SMP 2.4 kernel. </snip>
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On Thursday 18 October 2001 04:48 pm, Jesse Marlin wrote:
I am having a lot of problems installing SuSE 7.2 on a Abit BP6 | 440BX dual processor celeron motherboard running UMDA66. The install seems to work okay in yast1. I am doing a minimal install, and selecting the non-SMP 2.4 kernel. The root partition is on /dev/hde2 and lilo is written to the MBA on dev/hde. lilo writes out okay. After installation when the system is first booted everything was core dumping and I could not log in. I restarted the system and now when I boot I get 'System Halted'.
Has anybody had any luck with this motherboard and using udma? Thanks for any help.
I run SuSE 7.1 (2.4.0-SMP-64GB) on a BP6 and didn't have any problems installing it. I believe that SuSE won't even try to use UDMA66 untill you either do the system tweak in Yast2 or use a program called 'hdparm'.... If you think it's the HPT366 giving you problems with the install, you could move your harddisk to the 33Mhz bus and install, then swap it back over after the installation. That's the only way I've been able to install Win2000 on this machine. It doesn't sound like UDMA66 is your problem though. Are you trying the Uni-Processor kernel because the SMP failed, or because you've only got one CPU on board? -- 9:53pm up 20:09, 1 user, load average: 0.24, 0.18, 0.09
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