Hi Brian! On Sun, 2023-05-07 at 07:25 +0000, Brian Noonan wrote: > We chatted some weeks ago about upgrading my V210 to a second cpu and > using the downgraded smp kernel you sent a link to. > Well, I had a bit of a disaster initially. The second cpu I installed > initially was faulty. (I must have had it as a spare part for 15 years) > and it burnt the cpu and socket. *doh*. Anyway, I swapped out the motherboard > for one from a Netra V240 I had around and stuck in another spare cpu I had. > This is all working now. Unbalanced ram does seem to work too. I have 3.5gb > installed currently. The only minor issue to resolve now is i have a fan > failure on one cpu heatsink but a replacement fan should be easy to find. > Then I want some more ram (I will take this to 16Gb) and get an xvr-100 to > get a desktop so I can hook this up to my kvm. > > So, some issues along the way but all working now. I am currently managing > this system via cockpit since I don't think I can get webmin working.
Sounds very good. Which kernel version are you running now? And is it a custom kernel or Debian's stock kernel? And do you see any applications crashing when using a recent 6.x kernel? Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913