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Fedora Core 5 on Compaq Proliant 2500
{Cross-posted to linux.redhat.install}
I was given a Compaq Proliant 2500 server and a Compaq Storage System last week just to tinker with at home. My goal is to install Fedora Core 5 (so I can learn more about the Linux environment) and to become more comfortable with SCSI drive management. I'm not a true Linux newbie, but I have only administered existing Linux/Apache servers at work and my only installs have been on desktops with IDE drives. The server has the Compaq Smart Array 2/P RAID Controller installed and two 2.1 GB SCSI drives in the drive cage. The Storage System is also full of drives, but I am waiting for the SCSI cable to attach it to the server, because he forgot to grab that when he brought me the rest of the stuff. I was able to download and use the SmartStart 5.50 CD to erase the system and congifure the array. I told it to optimize the system for a Linux install and at the end, it told me it would restart and I should follow the OS instructions to continue my install. I put CD#1 in and let the system boot to it. The install started and reached a certain point and hung for a very long time. I cycled the power and tried one mor time. It hangs in the same place every time. Here's the text that is on the screen when it hangs: CPU: Intel Pentium Pro Stepping 07 Checking 'hit' instruction... OK. ExtINT not setup in hardware but reported by MP table ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs ...TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=0 pin2=0 ...MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC ....trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ... ...... (found pin 0) ...works. checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 4859k freed NET: Registered protocal family 16 PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0068, last bus=2 PCI: Using configuration type 1 ACPI: Subsystem revision 20060127 ACPI: Interpreter disabled. Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled usbco registered new driver usbfs usbco registered new driver hub PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI BIOS passed nonexistent PCI bus 2! PCI: Device 0000:00:00.0 not found by BIOS PCI: Device 0000:00:14.0 not found by BIOS PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:1000000@42000000 for 0000:01:06.0 PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:0d.0 Things I am uncertain about: Since I don't have the SCSI cable for attaching the Storage System, the SCSI connector on th rear of the server is unterminated. I don't know if this model is self terminating, or if I need a terminator. If so, could that be what is hanging it up? Could it be a bad RAM issue? The system has, I believe, the 64MB DIMM and two 128MB DIMMs. Memory counts up fine, but it counts to only 274K and some change. I'm assuming that's a shared memory situation. By the way, I tried just for fun and giggles late last night booting to the Knoppix 5.0.1 CD. It wouldn't load either, but I didn't get the text from that error, other than it was unable to load and was loading instead a minimal enivornment that gave me a prompt only. I really want to get this going. Any hints? Thanks Steve |
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