On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 06:56:16PM -0400, Gabriel Avila wrote: > I managed to install everything perfectly but now when i start the > initial bootup the system hangs after this line: > > HP SDC MLC: registering the Sytem Domain Controller's HIL MLC. > > after this line it symply stops the booting process. I did gave it time > (5hrs) so just in case it needed some time to finish the process but to > no avail. Any Ideas are very welcome. > TIA
IIUC, the kernel that's used in the installer is a uniprocessor kernel, but I think an SMP kernel is installed. I don't know what the bug is, or whether it has been fixed in later kernels. However, you might be able to work around it. From memory, it's something like this: * Run the installer again. Answer questions until the initial question about partitioning the disk drive. _Don't_ answer that question. * Instead, press Alt-F2 and Enter. You should now get a shell. * Now do "mkdir /tmpmnt", followed by something like "mount /dev/scsi/discs/discN/partM /tmpmnt" where N and M are the disc and partion numbers for your root device. (Although I'm not quite sure whether I've remembered that correctly. * Run "chroot /tmpmnt", and mount any other important partitions. If you have a /boot partition, you'll need to mount that. You also need to mount /proc. * Run "apt-get remove kernel-image-2.6.8-2-32-smp" to remove the SMP kernel image, followed by "apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.8-2-32" to install the uniprocessor image. * Unmount the filesystems. Provided that I've not missed anything, booting might work. I hope I've not made any mistakes. There may be a much better way of doing this, but it worked for me. You might still have this problem: http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux/2005-July/026884.html That seems to be fixed in later kernel images, though. Regards, -- Stuart Brady -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]