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On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 09:51:17PM -0700, Eugene Chu wrote:
The patient is a MSI K8D Master F/FT board with dual Opteron 244 on which I attempted to install an Adaptec 29160 SCSI HBA and SLES 8. It turns out that the release that comes on the CDs (32 or 64 bits) simply will not boot up on that board with the BIOS that comes with it if I installed it with the 29160 also installed. The installtion procdure recognizes the 29160, and configures it into the initrd file. If I installed SLES 8 without the card installed, there is still a chance that the OS will hang on bootup. Odd that the install procedure seems to work with it just fine, and the "safe" mode boots up.
That sounds more like a hardware problem. AFAIK people have used SLES8-SP3 on K8D successfully. I would first check out if your system runs memtest86 for at least 24h to rule out any memory issues. -Andi