Hello- We have not been able to get any of the Etch installer images to boot on a Compaq Proliant 8000 (6 Pentium III XEON CPUs, 3GB RAM, Compaq Smart Array controller). The machines abruptly resets just after "SERIO ..." messages.
It was running Mandrake Enterprise 8.1 with a hitch before (kernel 2.4, cpqarray) We did manage to get it to load a Debian Sarge Netinst CD, but this kernel only uses 1 CPU. We have tried many combinations of "acpi=off", noapic, nolapic, nosmp, debug, but none of these kernel options have worked with Debian Etch. I imagine that we can use aptitude to upgrade all packages to the latest stable release, and compile a new kernel, but what options should we select for this kernel to run the 6 CPUs? Thank you. Mateo. -- -- Mateo Obregón Fundación Instituto de Inmunología de Colombia --FIDIC-- Avenida 50 #26-00, Bogotá, Colombia --
