Alain Black wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Robert Lewis [mailto:rll@felton.felton.ca.us] Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 2:56 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] SuperMicro H8DA8/H8DAR motherboard
Thanks for this info. and help. I got pretty excited being given something to try. Everything looks good, mouse, GUI during installation it is just that after first reboot to finish up I never return to a GUI mode and eventually the screen fills up with errors. I can go into safe mode and YaST queries me for a few more items before the screen again fills up. I tried adding to the boot line: nosmp and on another attempt maxcpus=0 which does the same thing but still had problems. I have tried all acpi=off nolapic and some others but I don't get the prize.
I don't know why this never occurred to me to ask, or perhaps you answered it already and I just forgot. When you're doing the install, are you updating at all?
If yes, do the install without the update and see if it works. It could be something as simple as the SCSI driver not being compatible with a new kernel that gets loaded during the update. I've had that problem with the 3Ware card that I'm using in this system.
Question: I haven't wanted to pull out the second CPU itself as yet. Based on my earlier attempt to boot with "nosmp" is that worth a try?
Is your current CPU dual core?
Like I said, I'm having great luck with the non-SCSI version of this board and am using it for Oracle ERP validation in preparation of a migration from UNIX to SLES9.
-Alain
Thanks for the added feedback. All installs have been fresh installs. The CPU's are two AMD 250 Opteron 2.4 GHZ 64-bit. They each have their own heatsink of course. When I plug in an IDE drive everything installs without a hitch. Today I borrowed another SCSI drive, different brand, and for the first time installed but with a few error messages and it switched to non-GUI mode YaST2 after the first reboot to complete. Tomorrow I'll try d/l all the patches which has a new kernel and see what happens. Then on to trying to bypass the SCSI backplane which can hold three SCSI Drives. If that doesn't give me some clarity then I'll try a SCSI card and cable.