[ale] Installing RH onto a IBM PC Server 704

[Jeff Hubbs]

If you can't tell by visual inspection, I'd try booting up a Gentoo CD
to see (via lsmod) what it detects.  

One thing that's nice about Gentoo is that it gives you an option of
booting up to an SMP kernel for all that initial heavy lifting
associated with building gcc and so on.  I'm having fantasies about
putting "-j5" in make.conf on that thing....

What does it have for disks?

- Jeff

On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 09:10, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> That sounds like the scsi module is wrong. Try booting from the boot
> floppy you made during installation. You may need to do some boot line
> editing to tell the scsi controller some parameters it needs. What scsi
> controller does this beast have?
> 
> On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 09:00, John Cole wrote:
> > Howdy all!
> > 
> > We have an old IBM PC Server 704 that I'm trying to re-use as a linux
> > server.  It has a Quad PPro-200, 1GB ram, 12 4.3GB drives.  RH 7.3 installs
> > just fine.  After it reboots it kernel panics on the SCSI controller.  It
> > goes into a loop saying SCSI 0:0:0 does not exist for a few seconds then it
> > kernel panics.
> > 
> > Has anyone successfully installed linux (specifically RH) onto this type of
> > machine?  What did you have to do to get it working?  Are there any other
> > distributions of linux that work better on this hardware?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > John Cole, TICSA
> > 
> > Network Administrator / Security
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