Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4417 mails)

[Stephen Villano <steve@xxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, thanks. Just got the time to post regarding the fix.
When you reminded me of the navigator CD, I dug around for a couple of hours
and used it.
Apparently the the "old horse" threw a shoe, or at least a ram chip went
flakey. Pulled the offending chip and SuSE installed flawlessly.

-----Original Message-----
From: pheonix1t [mailto:pheonix1t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 8:55 PM
To: Stephen Villano; suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [SLE] HP netserver LH II


Stephen Villano wrote:
> Anyone have any experience in loading linux onto an HP netserver LH II (P2
> model)? Having a world of problems with it.
> The unit is stock with a netraid controller. I removed that after a few
> attempts that gave an unknown partition on the RAID, which I built in
BIOS. 
> I tried installing an older Diamond VGA card and disabling the onboard,
> which helped along with the removal of RAID card.
> 
> I *DO* have to say that I see a massive difference between SuSE and other
> distros when trying to load it. First try was my tried and true SuSE 8.2.
> Second attempt Debian, third attempt was RedHat.
> SuSE bailed last... Tolerated some weirdomatic NMI's from the system
better
> than others.
> Once I get the system up on at least ONE drive off of the AIC 78xx onboard
> controller, I'm certain I can get a RAID going. If not from the netraid
> controller (doubt that'll fail then), a software RAID.
> But first I need to load and boot the *#&$ system.
> Will post more detailed failure dumps on Monday as I have to go play Army
> this weekend...
> But it WOULD be nice to use this server here since I ended up "inherited"
> it...
> 
I've installed several OS's on Netservers.  Using the Navigator CD makes 
it much easier.  The Navigator CD is like Compaq's SmartStart CD.  You 
need to buy it from HP, go to their website and order it online or call 
their toll-free phone #.