I have a suggestion: the elimination system.
Strip your system to a minimum possible:
Motherboard, processors, 1 hard-disk, display.
If that doesn't work too, cut one processor and lower your
ram to 64M (I consider that safe).
Try to narrow down your problem to a specific device that
doesn't your in your system.
After installing that basic system, you have two options. Either
remove the installation, add ONE component and re-install, or
just add the component. And try to configure it.
Anyway, when you think you've stabalized the system, remove
the OS and re-install. That way you'll make sure everything is installed
correcly.
If/When you find a component that doesn't work... I guess handling it will
be specific to the problem.
Another thing - sometimes your BIOS may configure two devices to share
an IRQ (for example: your network adapter might share an interrupt with
your scsi host adapter). The kernel doesn't work well with this (for the given
example, an ifdown-ifup would hang the system). Make sure you don't have
devices that share an interrupt (cat /proc/interrupts).
Alex Dvash wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm trying to insert , linux boxes as an OEM product in my company
> So I bought a dual pentium III 450 MHz. with 384 MB, in a Asus mainboard,
> plus 2 IDE disks, 9GB and 20GB, and a trident AGP display adapter with 4MB,
> 3com905 and Adaptec 2940UW.
> I tried Red Hat 6.0 and SuSe 6.1, and nothing. It fails somewhere in the
> installation process, it just get stuck, and again with another installation
> intent.
> My workgroup can't believe that its so bad. In the same computer they
> installed NT 4.0 and it works ok. Linux looks like a game for freaks.
> Maybe Linux doesn't like dual processing?, or Asus is a bad mainboard for
> Linux?
> Do someone have any experience with this kind of hardware?
> Any ideas.. are welcome
>
> Thanx
>
> Aleks
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