Jima wrote: > I've got 2.6.17 (+ vendor patches) running on a Proliant 5000, 4x200mhz > PPro, 640mb RAM, 5x9gb in hardware RAID (via 2/P controller, it seems). > Aside from some extra kernel arguments to recognise all of the memory, > it pretty much worked right away. Let me know if you want/need details. > > Jima Jima, You got to it first!!! ;p Just kidding... ;p Anyway, yeah if you could send me the kernel arguments, I would really appreciate it. I've been using boot: gentoo dosci dokeymap memmap=exactmap memmap=640K at 0m memmap=319M at 1m reaches the point of: enter mode # or scan: 0 ucompressing linux...OK, booting the kernel. ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP ..MP BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC PCI: failed to allocate mem resource #6:1000000 at 42000000 For 0000:01:06.0 >> loading modules --------------------- at this points, it sits as loading modules for a long time, the cursor spins, and I can see it accessing the cd drive but I have left it overnight and no difference. ----------------------------------------------------------------- I heard I should add nocpus=2 and I wonder if that will make the MP Bios thing go away. I also heard I should add i8042.nomux, but that didn't work. I tried i8254.nomus just for kicks, that didn't work either. Anyway, anything you can send me as far as kernel boot options ,etc would be much appeciated. I really want to get this machine working. I would really, really like to make sure the U1 storage array works through the 2/DH controller, so the total # of drives would be 12 (5+7) @ 4.3 gb each. Hope to hear from you soon, thanks a lot Jima, I can't wait to see your boot options. I am excited. Nick "All unix, all the time." http://npt.ath.cx