[ale] Update on my attempts with a PC Server 704.

[Greg]

I would try Suse, then Debian, then FreeBSD, then OpenBSD (only works in
single processor mode though), then NetBSD.  If NetBSD fails, then I would
try Windows 2k Pro, as you basically have exhausted all of the systems that
I know about.

Greg


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of John
> Cole
> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 10:06 AM
> To: 'ale at ale.org'
> Subject: [ale] Update on my attempts with a PC Server 704.
>
>
> Howdy all!
>
> Ok, I have now tried Redhat, Mandrake, Gentoo, and Slackware.  Redhat 7.3
> likes my system (SMP + SCSI HW Raid) but kernel panics on boot.  Mandrake
> doesn't even see my SCSI drives so it can't progress.  Gentoo
> like my system
> only in Single-Processor mode and it sees my SCSI Raid adapter
> but no drives
> (nothing under /dev/sd*).  Slackware boots to setup (can't tell
> if it likes
> SMP), sees my SCSI Raid adapter, but no drives under /dev/sd*).
>
> Do the IBM ServeRAID need drivers to run in Linux?
>
> Does anyone have any other ideas or should I just give up on this hardware
> to install Linux onto?
>
> Thanks,
> John Cole, TICSA
>
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