E60 and Redhat 7/7.1

[Nicholas Ritter]

I have a NetServer E60 with one PIII 500 CPU and over 200MB RAM.

I have been running RedHat 6.2 on it for sometime without any problems. I attempted to upgrade to 7.0 (and eventually 7.1), but had a problem.

The install went fine but when the system rebooted it hangs when initing the swap. I tried doing a low level format of the HDs but the problem still occurred. I added a ultra wide hard drive that already had 7.1 installed on it, and the system booted up without a problem.

I would like to be able to use RedHat 7 on my E60, as well as future netservers that I may purchase. RH6 does not have the 2.4 kernel abilities that I need.

I saw that someone else had this same problem in a previous posting from March 2001.

What is the solution?

Nicholas Ritter
Network Administrator

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

See http://www.europe.redhat.com/documentation/HOWTO/i810-HOWTO/x15.php3#AEN69

[Nicholas Ritter]

This doesn't really solve the problem does it?

The reason I ask this is that the link describes how to compile a kernel to overcome problems with th i8xx chipset, but that assumes that linux is installed and that I am restricted to either 2.2.18, or very early 2.4 kernels; all of which would be installed on top of the current distro. Because 6.2 is the latest that I can get installed and running, the posted fix would mean I would be running 2.4 kernel (or 2.2.18) on a non-2.4 savvy distro.

Am I wrong on this?

[Nicholas Ritter]

BTW-

I tried using the Rage IIC AGP card that came with the system, and I tried using a Matrox G200 card, but this didn't change anything.

I just find it wierd that an HD with a working RH7.1 sys on it worked in the E60 provided that the HD in question was not in the E60 when the HD was having RH7.x installed on it.