From: Wesley Darlington (wesley at domain blackstar.co.uk)
Date: Tue 18 Jul 2000 - 14:16:20 IST
Hi All,
I originally asked about installing Debian potato on a quad Xeon.
Technically, I didn't solve the problem. I ended up plugging the
raid card into another box I had lying around (but keeping it
scsi-ily connected to the disks in the 6300) and doing the install
to the raided disks via the other box. Then, I built a new kernel
on the other box which I knew would work on the 6300, put the
raid card back into the 6300 and booted [the 6300] off it. Yay! :-)
(Just wanted to get that into the archives...)
Thanks,
Wesley.
On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 06:51:52PM +0100, Wesley Darlington wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm trying to install Debian on a Dell Poweredge 6300. I've tried
> a couple of bootable potato cds that I've made over the past few
> months but they all hang at a certain point...
>
> PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>
> This is lifted from the dmesg output on a quite different machine,
> but it hangs after (IIRC) three lines of PIIX4 output not unlike these. (*)
>
> When I say it "hangs", I mean it just stops, goes noticeably
> quieter (it's already quite noisy) and after a couple of seconds,
> the video output stops. That's it. I have to unplug (all three of)
> the power leads to get it to boot again.
>
> The box used to run redhat and I've finally managed to get it out
> of production so I can do a number of things to it: different NIC,
> much better raid card, debian. :-)
>
> I've tried pulling all the PCI cards out - all both of them - the
> NIC and the raid card but the symptoms are the same. I've tried
> booting it with aic7xxx=no_probe. Same thing.
>
> I've installed from the two CDs I'm using to a whole range of
> different boxes, from lots of different bog standard PCs to
> dell servers - 1300s, 2450s, 2400s etc.
>
> The next thing I was going to try - it's a bit tedious, so I
> was putting it off - was making my own debian boot floppies
> with only the necessary. Especially without IDE support. I'll
> probably try that when I'm next in work, unless some kind soul
> can shed some light on this problem. :-)
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Wesley.
>
> (*) Apologies for not posting the exact output. :-(
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