Re: AMD64 Stable fails to boot on Dell PowerEdge 1950

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 disabled in BIOS

-travis

On 31/10/06 11:45 -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
In response to Vivek Khera <vivek@xxxxxxxxx>:


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. Disabling ACPI totally seems undesirable under normal circumstances.

I've done multiple installs of 6-STABLE on a 1950 without problems.
One of them was used to create a custom install CD that I'm using today
to install on several others. Haven't had to tweak anything at all
in the BIOS.

I missed the start of this thread. Did you give any more hardware
details?

--
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.
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