[Techtalk] Problems running Redhat FC4 on Compaq DL360/G1 with SMP kernel

[Bruce McPeek]

Hello,

I'm working on setting up a Compaq DL360 / G1 system (dual Xeon P3 @
1200 MHz). The installation defaults to trying to use a multi-proc
kernel. When I try to boot the system with this kernel it will get as
far as a message like "Unpacking system image" and hangs. It will boot
with a single proc kernel however. The single proc kernel throws a
couple of error messages about not being able to determine the AGP
aperture size. This understandable because this machine does not have an
AGP bus.

My questions are....

Is the boot messages captured in a log somewhere? I want to more
accurately describe errors.

Is it possible to run this system on a multi-proc kernel?

Can I configure Linux not to look for AGP and throw error messages? Also
since this is a server, there is no sound hardware present. Can I
configure the gnome GUI to not look for it so it stops popping an error
when logging into the GUI that the volume control cannot find any sound
hardware?


Bruce