[sclug] RedHat 9 issues

[Tom Dawes-Gamble]

Hi,

	There are a number of documents on what HP Systems are
test with Linux but I think most of the certification stopped at 
7.3  and Advanced Server 2.1.

	I just today installed 9.0 on an XA Kayak and had no problems.
Given that 8.0 loads ok it must be something a bit different in the 9.0
kernel.  

	I'm not really an HP intel PC person I work on the PA-Risc stuff
and Itainium systems.  I see if anyone has an XU I can try and see if I
get the same result. 

regards,
Tom.


On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 10:11, Leon Ward wrote:
>  
>  	Hello World.
>  
>  Ok this may sound like a silly problem but it has me stumped.
>  Google has been bugg3r all help.
>  
>  I am attempting to upgrade my "Crash n Burn" box to RedHat 9, 
>  downloaded the ISO's and burned them myself (MD5's were fine).
>  All CD's burned ok, however I cant boot of the install disk, 
>  GRUB comes up with all the boot options fine but when I 
>  select install the kernel does not start to boot.
>  
>  
>  eg
>  
>  boot: [enter]
>  
>  Loading vmlinuz......
>  Loading initrd.img.....
>  [clear screen]
>  
>  -hang-
>  
>  I have tried the noprobe, text options etc but their kernel 
>  does not want to play.
>  
>  I mounted the install disk in another box and created a 
>  floppy boot image...
>  
>  #cd /mnt/cdrom/images
>  #dd if=./bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=16k
>  
>  This process seams to work, but after rebooting I get the following
>  
>  SYSLINUX 2.00 2002-10-25 Boot failed.
>  
>  
>  
>  So any suggestions would be a great help,
>  I have tried the CD's in another old crap box (a HP Vectra 
>  VLi8 P2 400, 128Mb all IDE) and the boot fine. Ran the "Check 
>  media" option and everything passed.
>  BTW I have tried all boot options like "linux noprobe" that I know of.
>  
>  Hardware spec: 
>  
>  HP Kayak XU (D6335N)
>  Single p2 Xeon
>  Adaptec AIC-7880 with one HDD attached
>  IDE CDROM on Pri Master
>  128Mb RAM
>  
>  BTW RH8, 7.3 Debian, Gentoo, winnt all boot fine from my CDROM.
>  
>  Any ideas? 
>  
>  Leon
>  
>  
>  
> 
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