[SuSE Linux] FW: SuSE and question about SMP support (also RAID support)
Hi, I have just spent one hell of a weekend trying to get SuSE 5.3 to install on a machine which has a MegaRAID controller with three 9GB hard drives connected. It has an Adaptec 7860 with a CDROM and Tape drive, and an Adaptec 7880 controller which currently has no drives connected. At first, the machine would crash until I disabled the 7880 controller (wasn't needed in this case). Getting a Kernel built that would support the RAID controller was not my idea of fun, but after about 30 hours trying lots of different things, I managed to get a Kernel built and to boot up while recognising the CDROM drive AND the RAID drive. SuSE installed fine after that. If anyone needs to know the details of how to do this, get in touch and I will save you some work! Now to my question...Has 2.0.36 fixed anything for SMP support? How stable is SMP for the 2.0.35 kernel which I am currently using? I have two PII processors with 256M RAM (soon to be 512M) and the MegaRAID controller must work with SMP too. Anyone set something like this up? Kieran P.S. Any ideas how to re-create the setup floppy disk that comes with SuSE 5.3? - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Kieran Sullivan wrote:
P.S. Any ideas how to re-create the setup floppy disk that comes with SuSE 5.3?
There should be a section in the manual called Creating Boot Disks with Linux. I only have the 5.1 manual so I can't say for sure for 5.3. Basically you minix format the floppy, find the boot disk you want in the disks directory of the cdrom, then dd if=<disk> of=/dev/fd0 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
participants (2)
-
ksullivan@bfsec.bt.co.uk
-
zentara@mindspring.com