Re: AMD64 Stable fails to boot on Dell PowerEdge 1950

2006-11-01 Thread Travis Pugh
On 01/11/06 13:56 -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: On Oct 31, 2006, at 12:36 PM, Travis Pugh wrote: I've had no difficulty with 1950/2950 installs, as long as the disk controller is the PERC 5/I. I don't know if this holds for Vivek's experience as well. However, with the SAS5 controller (LSILogic

Re: AMD64 Stable fails to boot on Dell PowerEdge 1950

2006-11-01 Thread Vivek Khera
On Oct 31, 2006, at 12:36 PM, Travis Pugh wrote: I've had no difficulty with 1950/2950 installs, as long as the disk controller is the PERC 5/I. I don't know if this holds for Vivek's experience as well. However, with the SAS5 controller (LSILogic SAS) AMD64 won't boot without either: - A

Re: AMD64 Stable fails to boot on Dell PowerEdge 1950

2006-10-31 Thread Travis Pugh
I've had no difficulty with 1950/2950 installs, as long as the disk controller is the PERC 5/I. I don't know if this holds for Vivek's experience as well. However, with the SAS5 controller (LSILogic SAS) AMD64 won't boot without either: - ACPI / APIC disabled, killing SMP - Any BCE interfaces d

Re: AMD64 Stable fails to boot on Dell PowerEdge 1950

2006-10-31 Thread Vivek Khera
On Oct 27, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Travis Pugh wrote: Is there something I'm missing with regards to ACPI on the AMD64 platform? I've read here that i386 boots fine on the same hardware. I have one piece of dell equipment which insists on disabling ACPI timer and then everything works. Disabli

Re: AMD64 Stable fails to boot on Dell PowerEdge 1950

2006-10-31 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Vivek Khera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Oct 27, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Travis Pugh wrote: > > > Is there something I'm missing with regards to ACPI on the AMD64 > > platform? I've read here that i386 boots fine on the same hardware. > > I have one piece of dell equipment which insi

AMD64 Stable fails to boot on Dell PowerEdge 1950

2006-10-27 Thread Travis Pugh
Hi folks. I have read of some issues with the Dell PE1950/2950s in the archive, but nothing like this. I have a Dell PowerEdge 1950 with 2 dual-core Xeon 5050 processors, with SATA drives attached to the Dell SAS5/i controller. I'm trying to load 6.1-STABLE-200609 AMD64 on the machine. It l