On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 17:47, Stuart Powell wrote:
Hello, everyone.
I am having trouble getting a recent Linux distro to install on a Compaq Proliant 1600. It has 2xPIII-500/512MB/SA221/3x9GB/RAID5. My ultimate goal is to install Mandrake 9.1 on it, as that is what the developers for Qmail-Toaster recommend.
I have done a search for this problem, and have found that older Linices seem to be OK on this platform, but newer versions seem prone to failures during installation. So far, I have tried RedHat7.2, which worked just fine, and SuSE8.0, SuSE8.2 and Mandrake9.1, all of which fail. I am willing to try SuSE7.3, but would like a newer distro if possible. Does anyone know for certain why these newer distros seem to be incompatible with the Proliant 1600 when the older distros appear to work OK ?
Stuart,
Does it Kernel Panic while booting the CD? if so this is usually an
issues with the non-linear organisation of the memory map on the Compaq,
I have certaily had this problem with Proliant 2500's.
The trick is don't even attempt to load SuSE 8.1 , 8.2 should be fine.
boot the cd on command line add something like:
Mem=16M@240M
As I understand it it works like this:
the Compaq memory map has a lower 16MB region with the balance being
elsewhere, so the above example reflects the setting if you have 256MB
of RAM. also add acpi=off for good measure.
If you then get as far as the YAST installer gui, then before you start
the installation go to the bootloader configuration settings and select
Lilo instead of Grub as Grub is unable to resolve this memory mapping
arrangement.
HTH
David
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David Bottrill