IBM/Intel Blade problems

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Wed Mar 10 10:54:21 PST 2004


On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 05:11:22PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote:
> 
> hi,
> 	just want to share my experience, and maybe get some help?
> 
> I can only boot via the PXE/network/diskless - the cd's boot does not
> succeed in reading via USB.
> 
> current:
>  with ACPI hangs very soon after it goes multi-user
>  without ACPI: cannot complete since it seems it does not recognize the 
> braodcom
> 
> 4.9:
>  works! but no keyboard, btw the mouse does work (well, it moves ... :-)

You might try building a kernel without apic and SMP support on current
and seeing if that PXE boots.  My laptop tends to hang when starting X
if I leave it in.

-- Brooks

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