2.4 on COMPQ Proliant

2.4 on COMPQ Proliant

[Butter, Frank]

Has anyone experiences with 2.4.x on recent Compaq Proliant Servers (e.g.
ML570)?

I've installed RedHat7 and it worked fine out of the box.
Except that the SMP-enabled kernel stated there was no SMP-board detected
;-/
For some reasons (Fibrechannel drivers and so on) I've compiled
2.4.2 and installed it. Although I've compiled the support in, the
NCR-SCSI-chip was not found and therefore no root-partition. It is a model
supported by 53c8xx - detected by the original RedHat-kernel.  

For testing I compiled a kernel with all (!) scsi-low-level-drivers -
with the same result. The SMP-board also was NOT detected by 2.4.2.

Any hint?

Frank

Re: 2.4 on COMPQ Proliant

[Mario Mikocevic]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 05:11:16PM +0200, Butter, Frank wrote:
> Has anyone experiences with 2.4.x on recent Compaq Proliant Servers (e.g.
> ML570)?
> 
> I've installed RedHat7 and it worked fine out of the box.
> Except that the SMP-enabled kernel stated there was no SMP-board detected
> ;-/
> For some reasons (Fibrechannel drivers and so on) I've compiled
> 2.4.2 and installed it. Although I've compiled the support in, the
> NCR-SCSI-chip was not found and therefore no root-partition. It is a model
> supported by 53c8xx - detected by the original RedHat-kernel.  
> 
> For testing I compiled a kernel with all (!) scsi-low-level-drivers -
> with the same result. The SMP-board also was NOT detected by 2.4.2.
> 
> Any hint?

Update BIOS !

-- 
Mario Mikočević (Mozgy)
My favourite FUBAR ...

Re: 2.4 on COMPQ Proliant

[Butter, Frank]

Hi,
I solved it for now using the SmartStart-CD as described and I'll flash the,
ROM as soon as possible - thanks for all answers.

The only thing that isn't working yet is the FibreChannel controller.
Has anybody dealed with this internal controller and an external
COMPAQ Raid Array 4100, connected via an external FC-AL Switch?  

Thx,
Frank

> On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Butter, Frank wrote:
> 
> > For the SMP-Problem it helped to use an option offerd at boot time:
> > "Press F9 to select different operating system". Before I used
> > "Minimum Configuration...", because Linux wasn't listed.
> 
> This is a sure sign that you need to update your firmware. 
> Download the
> latest ROMPAQ from the COMPAQ web site and reflash your 
> systems. After you
> do that run the Configuration Utility from the SmartStart CD 
> and set the
> OS type to Linux.
> 
> --
> Joel Gallun                                         joel@tux.org
> Open system and Internet consulting     http://www.tux.org/~joel
>