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Title: Problem installing onto an IBM eServer...
Post by: Jontu Kontar on January 17, 2008, 10:38:19 PM
Hardware:

IBM eServer XSeries 232 / 8668
1x Pentium III @ 1.26Ghz
2x PC133 Registered ECC @ 128
2x PC133 Registered ECC @ 256
1x USCSI 10,000RPM @ 18Gb

Problem:

I load the installer (just like I did on my Compaq test machine).  It asks for you to "select" (i.e. SME or i686) the installer and select necessary options.  I push enter and it begins to load, very slowly.  After 24hrs it finally loads "vmlinuz" and it begins loading "initrd" but stops progressing after the third dot.  Does anyone have an idea as to why this is happening?
Title: Re: Problem installing onto an IBM eServer...
Post by: cactus on January 17, 2008, 11:01:49 PM
Quote from: Jontu Kontar on January 17, 2008, 10:38:19 PM
Hardware:

IBM eServer XSeries 232 / 8668
1x Pentium III @ 1.26Ghz
2x PC133 Registered ECC @ 128
2x PC133 Registered ECC @ 256
1x USCSI 10,000RPM @ 18Gb

Problem:

I load the installer (just like I did on my Compaq test machine).  It asks for you to "select" (i.e. SME or i686) the installer and select necessary options.  I push enter and it begins to load, very slowly.  After 24hrs it finally loads "vmlinuz" and it begins loading "initrd" but stops progressing after the third dot.  Does anyone have an idea as to why this is happening?
I guess you are installing SME Server 7.3. Is that true?

I do not know if all your hardware is supported, my guess is that the error might be caused by you USCSI disk. Since SME Server 7.3 is based on CentOS 4.6 try to find if your hardware is supported by CentOS in their hardware compatibility lists, perhaps you need some additional boot options to have it work...
Title: Re: Problem installing onto an IBM eServer...
Post by: byte on January 17, 2008, 11:09:27 PM
Quote from: Jontu Kontar on January 17, 2008, 10:38:19 PM
Does anyone have an idea as to why this is happening?

Please report bugs and potential bugs in the bug tracker. Thanks.
Title: Re: Problem installing onto an IBM eServer...
Post by: Jontu Kontar on January 17, 2008, 11:14:01 PM
Quote from: cactus on January 17, 2008, 11:01:49 PM
I guess you are installing SME Server 7.3. Is that true?

Yeah, it's the latest version of SME Server.  I just burned a copy of it earlier this month.
Title: Re: Problem installing onto an IBM eServer...
Post by: kevinb on January 18, 2008, 05:06:17 AM
I have it running very nicely on 2 eServer 235's (P4) one with hardware raid and one with just SCSI.

Kevin
Title: Re: Problem installing onto an IBM eServer...
Post by: Jontu Kontar on January 18, 2008, 03:12:31 PM
Was  there anything "special" you had to do to get it working correctly?
Title: Re: Problem installing onto an IBM eServer...
Post by: kevinb on January 18, 2008, 04:25:57 PM
Not at all, the 1Gb NIC and SCSI controller was found and everything. Very smooth installation. On this system RHEL4 was a factory option OS.

Kevin