On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:06:37 +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > Next, an original Intel xln. It was recognized, the Proliant asked for the > change in boot order, I could allocate an irq. Everything fine. > Booting, however, results in a crash; the board is not recognised (if it > isn't, why can it crash ?). In any case, the NIC does not show, and the > box automatically re-enters BIOS-boot after a few seconds after rpc. > I tried twice; and twice the same effect: auto-reboot.
Dug a bit deeper into this; and find the trouble (alas, again on this type of machine) to be in the bsd.mp. The bsd kernel works pretty well with another NIC that I tried (D-Link 530-TX) and crashes reproducibly at loading of the MP-kernel. 3.8-stable, in case someone asks. Uwe