Grant McChesney wrote:

On 10/28/05, *Robert* <roberth@abbacomm.net mailto:roberth@abbacomm.net> wrote:

greetings

i have a few dual P3 Compaq 1850R units and use compaq smartstart
5.5 on
them before a CentOS 4 load

i have acquired some dual P3 Compaq DL380 G1 i.e. Generation 1
units and am
wondering which specific smartstart download i should be using for
them from
this URL below

h18004.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/subscription/ssdownloads.asp
<http://h18004.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/subscription/ssdownloads.asp>

would someone please share their experience on this so i dont have
to waste
time and bandwidth?

thank you and kind regards

Robert:

The latest SmartStart (7.40) should work with the DL380 G1. The latest firmware update cd (7.40) should work on it as well. I must admit I haven't tried since SmartStart 7.10 a little while ago. I know for sure the latest firmware update cd will _NOT_ work on the 1850R. The NIC is not supported and causes it to hang on startup. Good luck.

Grant

Hmmm... I had this firmware update issue on a dual 550 1850R. The machine would boot to the single kernel, but not to the smp kernel. I added/edited the following to the kernel options for the smp kernel

ro root=LABEL=/ apm=off noapic rhgb quiet

I was seeing some apic errors on boot up from the beginning and under both kernels, which is why I added that. But I really think the issue was the apm. It might make sense that the updated apm is adding/changing a ?wake on lan? or some such which the kernel can't handle? But, anyway, since adding those entries, it has booted perfectly every time. I notice CentOS configured the NIC card as eth0 and the onboard NIC as eth1 (this seems a common occurance at least to me.. sort of random.. maybe whichever driver it finds first?). But the onboard NIC is working fine on this machine. And I have the added benefit of not seeing any errors going by during bootup.

Best, John Hinton