On Wednesday 23 January 2008 16:36, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 21 January 2008, Mateo Obregon wrote: > > > >> > We did manage to get it to load a Debian Sarge Netinst CD, but > > > >> > this kernel only uses 1 CPU. > > > > UPDATE: I installed the SARGE packages (because the ETCH GCC 4 compiler > > would not compile the 2.6.8 kernel) and recompiled 2.6.8 with SMP > > (Pentium III XEON) and it is working fine so far. > > > > But, what could be the difference with the 2.6.18 kernels that make this > > machine reboot in the booting of 2.6.18? > > I'm afraid that we are not the right people to answer that question. The > differences between the 2.6.8 kernel and 2.6.18 are _huge_. > The most likely reason is that more recent kernels just haven't been tested > the hardware you have and that a regression has been introduced at some > point that has not been noticed. > > Your best option is to report your issue in the kernel bugzilla [1] so that > the upstream kernel developers, but that only makes sense if you're willing > to follow up on it. They will most likely ask you to try a current kernel > (2.6.23 or 2.6.24) and to try to pinpoint when exactly the regression was > introduced. > > I'm afraid there are no easy solutions for issues like this and there is > little we in Debian can do about them.
Thanks for the reply. I will try a new kernel to see what the matter is, since this is an important piece of hardware for us. Mateo. -- -- Mateo Obregón Fundación Instituto de Inmunología de Colombia --FIDIC-- Avenida 50 #26-00, Bogotá, Colombia --