AMD64 Stable fails to boot on Dell PowerEdge 1950

[Travis Pugh]

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 at khera.org>:
>
>> 
>> 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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