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тАО12-20-2004 02:05 AM
тАО12-20-2004 02:05 AM
XW8200 Fedora Core 3 problem
We had an XW8200 on loan from HP.
I installed Fedora Core 3, x86_64, without
any problems.
We have now bought our own system, but I
can't install FC3 on this! The SATA harddrive
is not recognized, and the USB mouse is
not recognized during installation.
There are two differences between the system
on loan and the system we've bought:
1. RAM size, our machine has 4G, the
loan machine 2G.
2. BIOS version. our machine has 1.07, the
on loan machine had 1.05.
Else the machines are identical, same disk,
same 2xCPU's, same graphics (nv3400).
I've tried upgrading the BIOS on the loan
machine to 1.07, it can still install FC3.
I've tried dumping the BIOS setup on the loan
machine (after the 1.07 upgrade) and have
loaded it on our own machine: It still can't
install FC3.
The output of lspci is identical on the
two systems.
The (32bit) RHEL3 preinstalled on our own
machine worked without problems...
Any suggestions ?
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тАО12-20-2004 03:56 AM
тАО12-20-2004 03:56 AM
Re: XW8200 Fedora Core 3 problem
try to find your answers here :
http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/linux/products/clients/xw8200-drivers-cert.html
If your problem continues I suggest to contact HP. I suppose your hardware has a regular maintenace contract.
Regards,
Xyko
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тАО12-20-2004 06:12 PM
тАО12-20-2004 06:12 PM
Re: XW8200 Fedora Core 3 problem
supported by HP, I don't think this is
a good idea.
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тАО12-20-2004 10:25 PM
тАО12-20-2004 10:25 PM
Re: XW8200 Fedora Core 3 problem
After removing 2 of the 4 Gb, FC3-x86_64
installs without problems.
I ran up2date (new kernel), and I've put
the memory back. The system doesn't boot
(the disk isn't found).
However, I can get the machine to boot by
adding the mem=xxxxM kernel parameter,
however, it will only use 3G memory,
even when I boot with mem=4096M.
mem= /proc/meminfo
value MemTotal
2048M 2057732 kB
3072M 3090824 kB
3584M 3083640 kB
4096M 3005384 kB
When I boot FC3-ix86, I get
4145268 kB for MemTotal.
Strange....
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тАО12-20-2004 10:38 PM
тАО12-20-2004 10:38 PM
Re: XW8200 Fedora Core 3 problem
You must see if your kernel was generated with support for big memory.
You have to have kernel sources installed and start the kernel configuration program "make menuconfig" to see the configuration you are using.
1 - install kernel sources and kernel headers
2 - cd /usr/src/linux* <= kernel source director
3 - make menuconfig
4 - select Processor type and features
5 - select High Memory Support
6 - select 4 Gb support
7 - exit and save the configuration file
8 - Proceed with a new kernel generation
If you don't know how to proceed to generate a new kernel and to update your boot loader, let us know.
But if you already has big memory support .... let us know also.
regards.
xyko
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тАО12-20-2004 11:45 PM
тАО12-20-2004 11:45 PM
Re: XW8200 Fedora Core 3 problem
64 bit kernel.
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тАО12-21-2004 12:28 AM
тАО12-21-2004 12:28 AM
Re: XW8200 Fedora Core 3 problem
My mistake, I forgot we are dealing with a 64 bit situation.
Back to the books.
regards,
xyko
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тАО12-21-2004 06:11 PM
тАО12-21-2004 06:11 PM
Re: XW8200 Fedora Core 3 problem
comes from devices mapping memory at
the 3G address and above.
If I understands:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-September/msg00211.html
correctly, the Xeon/EM64T is not so good at
handeling this as an AMD64 CPU.
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тАО12-21-2004 10:10 PM
тАО12-21-2004 10:10 PM
Re: XW8200 Fedora Core 3 problem
As I could understand about the message from Alan Cox on your last reply, the complains are all about performance, not exactly a "not working" bug.
Did you tried some help from fedora mailling list ?
http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
regards,
xyko
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тАО12-21-2004 10:19 PM
тАО12-21-2004 10:19 PM
Re: XW8200 Fedora Core 3 problem
test version of the kernel:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-December/msg00882.html