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02-20-2008, 04:42 PM
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 Slackware on IBM Netfinity 5500 I just got hold of an IBM Netfinity 5500 which I would like to install Slackware on. I've tried installing several times, using the raid.s kernel which supports the Serveraid controller. However, each time, and after a different amount of time, the install hangs. One time, when I watched the install and things slowed down to almost a halt, dmesg told that there were some kind of dmaproblems with hda1, which is the cdrom I installed from. Unfortunately I cannot remember the exact message. Does anybody know what causes this behaviour? I don't think it's faulty hardware, since FreeBSD installs just fine on the computer. Could it simply be because of a second idecontroller (currently without harddrives) is installed in the machine, and the driver conflict with the one for the inbuilt idecontroller which the cdrom is connected to? Eivind E -- _ // _ // \\ // \\// \/ Eivind E      |
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02-20-2008, 04:42 PM
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| Re: Slackware on IBM Netfinity 5500 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Eivind E wrote: > I just got hold of an IBM Netfinity 5500 which I would like to install > Slackware on. I've tried installing several times, using the raid.s > kernel which supports the Serveraid controller. > > However, each time, and after a different amount of time, the install > hangs. One time, when I watched the install and things slowed down to > almost a halt, dmesg told that there were some kind of dmaproblems > with hda1, which is the cdrom I installed from. Unfortunately I cannot > remember the exact message. > > Does anybody know what causes this behaviour? Yup. The kernel doesn't recognize the DMA controller, and can't get the data off of the CDROM properly. The fix is to boot the install CD with the "ide=nodma" kernel option (the selection is: "raid.s ide=nodma" ) FWIW, I had this problem with a Netfinity 5000 about 4 years ago. You can find the thread of my discussions in aols at http://groups.google.ca/group/alt.os...e75fde5000c69c [snip] - -- Lew Pitcher Master Codewright & JOAT-in-training | GPG public key available on request Registered Linux User #112576 (http://counter.li.org/) Slackware - Because I know what I'm doing. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEa8tkagVFX4UWr64RAobqAJ4jSuBu3ufuD3OMwS28t1 zQzIgvrACfTX2u NZcPTRUIhZFdn+YSm2ximWs= =PfuG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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02-20-2008, 04:43 PM
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| Re: Slackware on IBM Netfinity 5500 Den Wed, 17 May 2006 21:18:28 -0400, skrev Lew Pitcher: > Eivind E wrote: >> However, each time, and after a different amount of time, the install >> hangs. One time, when I watched the install and things slowed down to >> almost a halt, dmesg told that there were some kind of dmaproblems with >> hda1, which is the cdrom I installed from. Unfortunately I cannot >> remember the exact message. >> >> Does anybody know what causes this behaviour? > > Yup. The kernel doesn't recognize the DMA controller, and can't get the > data off of the CDROM properly. The fix is to boot the install CD with the > "ide=nodma" kernel option (the selection is: "raid.s ide=nodma" ) Excellent, I'm happy as the solution was so simple. It's installing as I write and the problems are gone. Thanks alot for help Regards Eivind -- _ // _ // \\ // \\// \/ Eivind E |
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