[gentoo-dev] kernel trouble on Dell 2650

[ben]

pls forgive if this is the wrong forum for this question:

Am trying to install on a Dell 2650 (serverworks dual P4, not immeaditly
sure which chipset) with perc raid.  for some reason, i cannot get the
gentoo-sources kernel to boot if it's compiled with smp.  This was blamed
on the RAID in the foums, but i've since found that the ac tree and the
redhat tree (it's their code for the raid driver) boot just fine in smp
mode (although, ofc, neither of these have XFS support, and so both panic
as soon as they try to mount /).  I've also tried ripping the aacraid code
out of the ac kernel and dropping it into the gentoo-sources one, but the
same thing occurs.

Can someone point me at the next thing to investigate here?  am wondering
if it's the chipset, as the boot always dies approx 10 seconds into the
bootstrap, regardless of which particular part of the kernel is being
loaded at that point.

Thanks,

Ben


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