Dear All, Thanks for reading my first ever email to this list. I am new to fooling with the kernel, done a tiny bit of reading on it, but only scratched surface, got myself in a jam, and looking for some advice. Thanks very much. I am running a Compaq Proliant 1850, dual P3-600's, 1gb RAM, RAID 1 18gb drives, all latest updates to hardware, running SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional, fresh normal install, (which will be our SMTP server once done). I didnt see in the boot log that it was detecting both processors, so I fired-up YaST and went to install the SMP kernel, which it prompted me that I must be insane to try to do such a thing since it took care of this on its own, so I stopped, went back, did some more reading, posted to forums at http://www.itrc.hp.com/ which are very good, didnt come up with much, so said what the heck, I'll give it a shot, went back to YaST, this time clicked past the kernel warning, all went well, rebooted, and it cant find depencies. I actually have two (ie: the second is our web server) of these identical machines, the second is running fine, as I didnt touch it. I am now booted to "failsafe" & trying to get back to where I can try to correct this, but hitting blocks, thus my posting here. In failsafe, in YaST, trying to load default kernel, neither the floppy nor the CDROM seem to be there and I cant figure out how to access them. Any advice on how to use the CDROM or floppy in failsafe would be great, for this issue, and for future knowledge. Second, what is my course of action: is installing the default kernel what I want to do now anyway? Do I want to try to solve the depencies of the SMP kernel? OR some other course of action entirely? I guess perhaps I ought to start back at the start and wonder why the installer didnt recognize the second processor in the first place. I have tried booting to "rescue" but it hangs once it starts probing hardware. Since the machine is not yet in production, I could just pave over it fresh, but I'd rather not, and I'd like to learn the kernel/system/OS resurrection process/procedures. If you dont mind, kindly reply to me, as well as to list, since were not yet subscribed. Thanks all so very much. Jason Sjobeck, Portland, Oregon, USA --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search
The 03.10.24 at 11:07, sjobeck@yahoo.com wrote:
I am now booted to "failsafe" & trying to get back to where I can try to correct this, but hitting blocks, thus my posting here. In failsafe, in YaST, trying to load default kernel, neither the floppy nor the CDROM seem to be there and I cant figure out how to access them. Any advice on how to use the CDROM or floppy in failsafe would be great, for this issue, and for future knowledge.
Your cdrom is probably configured to use ide-scsi emulation; but this is disabled for the failsafe kernel, so it won't work. Edit the line (when booting) and add ide-scsi emulation as in the default kernel. It should work.
Second, what is my course of action: is installing the default kernel what I want to do now anyway? Do I want to try to solve the depencies of the SMP kernel?
Probably.
OR some other course of action entirely? I guess perhaps I ought to start back at the start and wonder why the installer didnt recognize the second processor in the first place.
I think that's a good idea... but I have no experience there.
I have tried booting to "rescue" but it hangs once it starts probing hardware.
That's too bad! You need a rescue system. If it fails when the machine is in production, you are stuck.
If you dont mind, kindly reply to me, as well as to list, since were not yet subscribed.
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