5.2-RELEASE TODO

[Eric Anderson]

Tom wrote:

>  Just to be complete, there are already a whole bunch of machines that
>will not boot 5.x, irregardless of the ACPI issues.  I've never been able
>to boot 5.x with ACPI on or off, on any of the 5 Dell PowerEdge 6350
>servers I have here, even though they run 4.9 perfectly.  I have a PR open
>on it.
>
>  So even without the ACPI issues on some hardware, there are still other
>reasons why 5.x is going to fail to boot.
>  
>

Are you using a PERC in those boxes?  I've seen issues with PERC 
controllers on 5.1, but 4.8 worked fine.  I received a patch, which 
fixed it, but it's a bit hard to install the os, and then rebuild world 
without rebooting the machine. :)


Eric

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Eric Anderson	   Systems Administrator      Centaur Technology
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