Thank you, Brian It boots now. It was obviously a memory problem instead of detection problem. Once I entered the memory settings, everything booted smoothly. I still have much work to do, but is is a good beginning.
BTW: I used the same mem settings on my working debian system. Except that it was not needed to setup the system. I already knew the solution, but overlooked the obvious. I should have known that!!! To avoid such situations could the gentoo developers make some minimal memory checks? I know that newer machines work ok, but anyway. At least a warning? Thanks again. P.S.: I'm also a grub fun. But wasn't stated somewhere that grub has problems with SCSI drives? Will try your recipe anyway. Na 1074288181, 2004-01-16 ob 22:23, je Brian Downey napisal(a): > > I have a solid piece of hardware named Compaq. It's a rack mounted > > machine with an astonishing P-200 processor and 4 SCSI disks. > > I tried with several distributions, but all failed. Finally I managed > > to install a debian 3.0 on it. It runs a ftp/http server. Everything is > > ok. > > > > But some time ago I discovered Gentoo and I replaced my desktop > > distribution from RH to G1.4. I'm happy with that. I would like to have > > Gentoo also on the server, just to manage a single distribution. > > > > I tried several times installing it, but always failed. I also tried > > with the (gentoo based) Rescue CD 0.2.9 (www.sysresccd.org) which works > > great on other machines, but no luck. Now I don't know how to proceed. > > I included a part of the booting process where the SCSI driver is > > mentioned. > > > > Can somebody help? > > Hey Goran, > > I've installed Gentoo on many, many, eh.. many old Compaqs. RAID and No > RAID. Check out these threads I wrote a while back for help. If you're > using a 1600/2500 you'll likely run into a few of those. > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=14574&highlight=proliant+2500 > > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=16206&highlight=proliant+2500 > > If you need any detailed help, feel free to email me directly. > > -brian > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
