Hi Grant, Grant Grundler wrote:
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:43:46AM -0600, Conan C. Albrecht wrote:We have an RP 7400 (N-class) server with 8 processors (2GB ram per processor). It's a very nice machine and is only a few years old. :)Yes. it's a wonderful machine. 8 CPU. 6 GB/s backplane. 12 4X PCI slots.Does anyone have experience installing Debian on the 7400 (N-class)? The list archives show gururaj@cup.hp.com successfully put it on a smaller n-class in non-smp mode. We, of course, want to use all 8 processors.IIRC, "non-equivalently mapped aliases"
Is there much more detailed public doc some where about this stuff?May be have you an entry into a specific file where I can start to trace (with printk) where the pb exactly occurs?
Because the N available for me is in a computer room and in an isolate subnet, I build an external disk on a b2k or a b180 and install on it a 2.4.20 64bits UP kernel (I couldn't scratch internal hpux disks, I am not alone to use this server) and it works fine (I also tried cpqfc but without success: the available driver for this, according its maintainer is to be rewrite but I haven't any technical doc to try it, sorry).cause N-class and L-3000 to not operate in SMP mode correctly. Someone who understands parisc and linux vm would need suitable motivation to fix this. I can send trader joes organic dark chocolate if that would help. :^) BTW< this topic has been thoroughly discussed on parisc-linux mailing list. See www.parisc-linux.org mailing list archives.The machine does not have a CD drive, floppy drive, but we've been able to at least start using the tiny FTP method. The kernel starts loading but then the machine freezes as if it is an incompatible kernel. We haven't tried the newer 3.0 image yet.best to use the netinstall ISO from: ftp://ftp.parisc-linux.org/cd-images/testing/auto-isos/ http://pateam.esiee.fr/
hth, Joel