Topic: SME not booting

[Laurent]

Hello,
I've a big problem running SME server on 1 PC (Cyrix pr166+)
I can install without problem but when rebooting at the
end of install, there is:
Loading e-smith...............
Uncompressing Linux.........Ok, booting the kernel

and nothing else, the boot stops here.
(The boot disk does exactly the same thing)

Please help!
SME server 5.1.2

[Laurent]

Ok, Problem resolved, The motherboard accept EDO DRAM and
SDRAM, when SDRAM is installed, don't work, with EDO it's
ok, but later when booting there is:
Kernel Panic: Kernel compiled for pentium+, requires TSC

I was thinking that SME is for doing routers with old PC,
but apparently no, so if someone know a distrib that can do that ...?

[robert]

Have you ever looked at freesco?
www.freesco.org
This is a linux floppy router with web interface. Requires very little memory etc.

Freesco is the easy solution, the hard solution would be to try and recompile sme without pentium optimization, or you could try e-smith 4.1.2, which I believe does run on 486. But if you have no need for all the services that e-smith/sme provides, I would go with freesco.

[Laurent]

Thanks for answer, I look at freesco, but apparently don't work
with PPPoE or PPtP and I would like to have a smb server
and appletalk but the most important for me is routing.
So I'll look for other solutions or do my own with the better
base distribution for a minimal work.
If someone  can confirm that SME v4 can work with
less than pentium, I will be pleased to have a try to it.

[Dan Brown]

I expect the problem is that the installer is mis-detecting the CPU, which would likely still be the case with 4.1.2.  Don't know how to fix that.

However, you're right, if the only intent is to be a router, there are several other alternatives.  FreeSCO is one; you might also want to consider smoothwall, coyote Linux, and possibly even the Linux Router Project (though I understand their stuff isn't as easy to set up).  I expect there are others as well.

[Kees]

Try  http://www.fli4l.de  

Loads of support for pppoE and other bits.  ( 486-8mb upwards..)

[Laurent]

This one looks good (fli4l), I will have a try next week,
Thx for help

[Kris Bouchard]

I encountered the same problem you have.  I hadn't considered the EDO/ SDRAM as the cause, thanks for the tip.  

As for your question about a router.  Mandrakes Single Network Firewall is impressive.  I have it running on a p133 64mb ram 2 g hd.  Nice neat web interface. Easy installation too.