SuSE on Compaq ProLiant 850R with 2 CPUs?
I've recently acquired a Compaq Proliant 850R with dual Pentium Pro CPUs. I tried to bring up SuSE 7.1 Professional on it. It installed OK, but it hangs during the boot process. Has anyone else had success with this machine and any version of SuSE (which one)? I'll consider a newer release, but I'd like to know if if anyone has had success/failure before I give it a go. Thanks in advance for any pointers. Daryl
On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 22:54, Daryl Biberdorf wrote:
I've recently acquired a Compaq Proliant 850R with dual Pentium Pro CPUs. I tried to bring up SuSE 7.1 Professional on it. It installed OK, but it hangs during the boot process.
Has anyone else had success with this machine and any version of SuSE (which one)? I'll consider a newer release, but I'd like to know if if anyone has had success/failure before I give it a go.
A colleague has successfully installed 7.3 and a professional workstation which has the same motherboard as the 850R. Albeit his PC has only a single CPU, but it did install correctly. I have also installed SuSE 7.3 and 8.0 on a number older Compaq servers with few problems. The main problem I had was with the memory size not being detected correctly, but this is easy to fix in Lilo by adding MEM=128M or whatever you have installed. David Bottrill
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