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From: "Nelson
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Dell Poweredge 6450
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:29:43
Message-Id: 3D60AF2712C16D42A38076E52FD6E3D25E1BD2@ukmcrdembx01.rd.astrazeneca.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Dell Poweredge 6450 by Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
1 > -----Original Message-----
2 > From: Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [mailto:buanzo@××××××××××.ar]
3 > Sent: 24 April 2007 14:49
4 > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
5 > Subject: [gentoo-user] Dell Poweredge 6450
6 >
7 > Hi guys! I customer in the USA (I'm in .ar) bought this server:
8 >
9 > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=13009942756
10 > 6&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.com%3A80%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll%3
11 > Ffrom%3DR40%26satitle%3D130099427566%2B%26category0%3D%26fvi%3D1
12 >
13 > On first boot with livecd, it stalled on "Copying read-write
14 > contents to /tmpfs". Then we started
15 > trying different livecd options (doscsi, noapic, ide=nodma,
16 > nodetect, nocache etc).
17 >
18 > So far, doscsi allowed to go past that stage, but we found a
19 > kernel panic:
20 >
21 > SQUASHFS error: zlib_fs returned unexpected result 0xfffffffd
22 > SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 562788, size 90fd
23 > SQUASHFS error: zlib_fs returned unexpected result 0xfffffffd
24 > SQUASHFS error: Unable to read page, block 562788, size 90fd
25 > SQUASHFS error: zlib_fs returned unexpected result 0xfffffffd
26 > SQUASHFS error: zlib_fs returned unexpected result 0xfffffffd
27 >
28 > Any ideas?
29 >
30
31 Did a quick google and found:
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33 http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2003-May/007682.html < suggests smp-acpi doscsi cdcache as boot options, but this is a Poweredge 6400.
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35 The gentoo wiki page is a bit.... empty (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Dell_PowerEdge_6450) might want to add some stuff if you get this working?
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37 Hope this goes some way to help.
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41 djn
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43 I do not represent anyone else in emails I send to this list.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Poweredge 6450 Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman <buanzo@××××××××××.ar>