On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 11:13:55AM +0200, Helge Deller wrote: > On Sunday 20 May 2007, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > > I've been given a HP 9000/D390. It's huge. I've burnt an Etch install > > CD (just CD 1 of the official images), but I'm not having a lot of luck > > getting it booted with either the 32 or 64 bit kernels. They fail in > > different ways and I've attached boot logs of both - a 64 bit boot > > fails with a repeating sequence of FLT codes just after "Enumerating > > the EISA bus" while a 32 bit kernel prints "Freeing unused kernel > > memory: 328k freed" and then just sits there until I press a key at > > which point it prints "FLT 0000Kernel panic - not syncing: Kernel > > Fault". > > > > This is all over the serial console - there's no graphics card in the > > machine. I've ensured the machine is running the latest firmware (42.10) > > as I saw some suggestions that could cause issue, but it makes no > > difference compared to the revision that was on the machine beforehand > > (38.39). > > > > Any suggestions appreciated; equally confirmation that I /should/ > > expect Etch to run on the D390 would be nice. > > do you maybe have ISA/EISA cards in this machine ? > If yes, maybe removing them might help ?
I managed to get it booting without problems using a Gentoo 2007.0 CD, which has a 2.6.20.1 kernel rather than the 2.6.18 in etch. However I've now passed the machine on to Steve McIntyre, so hopefully he'll have some more luck getting it booting Debian. J. -- "Do I scare you?" "No." "Do you want me to?" -- Wayne's World. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
