starting sequence stop's in hp 9000 d-380

antsat · n00b Joined: 22 May 2007 Posts: 5

hello!!

I tring to install the gentoo 2007 in hp9000 d-380/2. I follow the gentoo handbook, but when i restart the machine, the starting sequence stop's whithout reporting error's.
the follow text shows the last lines displayed.

The smp are activated and the two cpu's are online.

384k freed
INIT: version 2.86 booting

Gentoo Linux; http://www.gentoo.org/
Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPLv2

Press I to enter interactive boot mode

* Mounting proc at /proc ... [ ok ]
* Mounting sysfs at /sys ... [ ok ]
* Mounting /dev for udev ... [ ok ]
* Seeding /dev with needed nodes ... [ ok ]
* Setting up proper hotplug agent ...
* Using netlink for hotplug events...
[ ok ]
* Starting udevd ... [ ok ]
* Populating /dev with existing devices through uevents ... [ ok ]
* Letting udev process events ... [ ok ]
* Finalizing udev configuration ... [ ok ]
* Mounting devpts at /dev/pts ... [ ok ]

I don't know how to resolve this problem!!
I would like some help tp solve this problem!!
thank you for your time!!!

HPRichard · Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 2:39 pm Post subject:

A first hint might be to try a non-SMP kernel, as SMP is reported not to be rock-solid on hppa boxes.

antsat · n00b Joined: 22 May 2007 Posts: 5

Thanks for the help !!!
With 1 CPU it works!!!
The kernel 2.6.20.1 don't work with smp on hp9000 d-380, but the kernel 2.6.22.1 works!!!
I have made a new installation with the kernel 2.6.22.1 and works ( almost fine ) white smp.
(Same times in the reboot sequence reports " Kernel Panic" )

guyr · Apprentice Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 237

I'm on a vanilla Dell Pentium D 950 system, not HP, but I'm having the same issue booting under VirtualBox with kernel 2.6.22. Kernel 2.6.20 boots without issue. But 2.6.22 gets to the line "Mounting devpts at /dev/pts" and just stops. I answered "no" to most questions while running "make oldconfig" after having copied the .config file from 2.6.20. I've got the kernel configured for SMP="no".

I did a quick Google search on "virtualbox 2.6.22" to see if any incompatibilities have been reported. None that are readily apparent. Appreciate any pointers to move forward. Thanks.
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Guy Rouillier

HPRichard · Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 11:24 am Post subject:

A Pentium D 950 is i386 or x86_64 architecture, whatever you like to run on that machine, while the D 380 is a hppa (aka PA-RISC) machine. The problem on this machine was that the SMP kernels are somewhat unstable on hppa boxes. Your problem is probably totally unrelated to that problem, even if the symptoms look similar.