Need some help

[Guest jdmarti1]

I am using Mandrake 10.1 Powerpack (I bought it rom Mandriva in May), but trying to upgrade to 10.2. I am using an old Compaq Proliant 7000 with quad Pentim 2 400Mhz processors. I was able to install 10.1 using the 2.4 Kernel. I could not get 2.6 to work. When I try to install 10.2 I find that it only uses 2.6. I am unable to get it to work. 10.1 works great, but I can't get zlib to upgrade past 1.2.1 for the Qmail toaster. I am a Linux newb - can anybody help me. I either need to find a way to make the new kernel work, or a way to get zlib 1.2.3. I would prefer to get the newer kernel to work. The server works great as a webserver, what should I do?

Edited October 1, 2005 by jdmarti1

[coverup]

I had a similar issues with 10.1 - could only install it with 2.4 kernel. I have subsequently upgraded it to 2005LE (aka 10.2) without major issues. In my case, the bottleneck was my SATA harddrive (or SATA controller), and 10.1+2.6 could not load a proper kernel module for it.

 

Post more details about issues you're having with 10.2 and somebody will give you a hand with soting them out. Also, you might want to try the latest and greatest 2006 edition which is about to be released (or have it been released?)

[Guest jdmarti1]

This is from my server when it boots:

 

cat /var/log/dmesg

Linux version 2.4.27-0.pre2.1mdksmp (quintela@n5.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 3.3.2 (Mandrakelinux 10.0 3.3.2-7mdk)) #1 SMP Fri Jun 4 03:25:07 CEST 2004

BIOS-provided physical RAM map:

BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)

BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)

BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)

BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000efffc000 (usable)

BIOS-e820: 00000000efffc000 - 00000000f0000000 (ACPI data)

BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)

BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved)

BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)

Warning only 896MB will be used.

Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.

896MB LOWMEM available.

found SMP MP-table at 000f4fd0

hm, page 000f4000 reserved twice.

hm, page 000f5000 reserved twice.

hm, page 000fc000 reserved twice.

hm, page 000fd000 reserved twice.

On node 0 totalpages: 229376

zone(0): 4096 pages.

zone(1): 225280 pages.

zone(2): 0 pages.

ACPI: RSDP (v000 COMPAQ ) @ 0x000f4f70

ACPI: RSDT (v001 COMPAQ 00000081 0x00000001 Ò 0x0000162e) @ 0xefffc000

ACPI: FADT (v001 COMPAQ 00000082 0x00000001 Ò 0x0000162e) @ 0xefffc040

ACPI: MADT (v001 COMPAQ JAVELIN_ 0x00000001 Ò 0x0000162e) @ 0xefffc100

ACPI: DSDT (v001 COMPAQ JAVELIN 0x00010000 MSFT 0x0100000a) @ 0x00000000

ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000

ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)

Processor #0 Pentium Pro APIC version 17

ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)

Processor #1 Pentium Pro APIC version 17

ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x02] enabled)

Processor #2 Pentium Pro APIC version 17

ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x03] enabled)

Processor #3 Pentium Pro APIC version 17

ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] dfl dfl lint[0x1])

Using ACPI for processor (LAPIC) configuration information

Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4

Virtual Wire compatibility mode.

OEM ID: COMPAQ Product ID: PROLIANT APIC at: 0xFEE00000

I/O APIC #8 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.

Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs

Processors: 4

Building zonelist for node : 0

Kernel command line: root=/dev/ida/c0d0p1 noapic nolapic acpi=ht

Initializing CPU#0

Detected 400.005 MHz processor.

Console: colour VGA+ 80x25

Calibrating delay loop... 797.90 BogoMIPS

Memory: 898908k/917504k available (1717k kernel code, 13984k reserved, 1274k data, 156k init, 0k highmem, 0k BadRAM)

Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)

Inode cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)

Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)

Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)

Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)

CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K

CPU: L2 cache: 1024K

Intel machine check architecture supported.

Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.

CPU: After generic, caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000

CPU: Common caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000

Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.

Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.

POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX

mtrr: v1.41 (20040107) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)

mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel

CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K

CPU: L2 cache: 1024K

Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.

CPU: After generic, caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000

CPU: Common caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000

CPU0: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 03

per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 2921.03 usecs.

task migration cache decay timeout: 10 msecs.

enabled ExtINT on CPU#0

ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000

ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000

Booting processor 1/0 eip 3000

Initializing CPU#1

masked ExtINT on CPU#1

ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000

ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000

Calibrating delay loop... 799.53 BogoMIPS

CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K

CPU: L2 cache: 1024K

Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.

CPU: After generic, caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000

CPU: Common caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000

CPU1: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 03

Booting processor 2/1 eip 3000

Initializing CPU#2

masked ExtINT on CPU#2

ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000

ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000

Calibrating delay loop... 799.53 BogoMIPS

CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K

CPU: L2 cache: 1024K

Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#2.

CPU: After generic, caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000

CPU: Common caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000

CPU2: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 03

Booting processor 3/2 eip 3000

Initializing CPU#3

masked ExtINT on CPU#3

ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000

ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000

Calibrating delay loop... 799.53 BogoMIPS

CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K

CPU: L2 cache: 1024K

Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#3.

CPU: After generic, caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000

CPU: Common caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000

CPU3: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 03

Total of 4 processors activated (3196.51 BogoMIPS).

Using local APIC timer interrupts.

calibrating APIC timer ...

..... CPU clock speed is 400.0100 MHz.

..... host bus clock speed is 100.0024 MHz.

cpu: 0, clocks: 1000024, slice: 200004

CPU0<T0:1000016,T1:800000,D:12,S:200004,C:1000024>

cpu: 1, clocks: 1000024, slice: 200004

cpu: 2, clocks: 1000024, slice: 200004

cpu: 3, clocks: 1000024, slice: 200004

CPU1<T0:1000016,T1:600000,D:8,S:200004,C:1000024>

CPU2<T0:1000016,T1:400000,D:4,S:200004,C:1000024>

CPU3<T0:1000016,T1:200000,D:0,S:200004,C:1000024>

Starting migration thread for cpu 0

smp_num_cpus: 4.

Starting migration thread for cpu 1

Starting migration thread for cpu 2

Starting migration thread for cpu 3

ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326

ACPI: Interpreter disabled.

PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0070, last bus=14

PCI: Using configuration type 1

PCI: Probing PCI hardware

PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries

PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)

PCI: Searching for i450NX host bridges on 00:10.0

PCI: Device 00:78 not found by BIOS

PCI: Device 00:80 not found by BIOS

PCI: Device 00:90 not found by BIOS

PCI: Device 00:98 not found by BIOS

PCI: Device 00:a0 not found by BIOS

PCI: C0 revision 450NX. Disabling PCI restreaming.

PCI: C0 revision 450NX. Disabling PCI restreaming.

PCI: C0 revision 450NX. Disabling PCI restreaming.

isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...

isapnp: No Plug & Play device found

Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4

Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039

Initializing RT netlink socket

apm: BIOS not found.

Software Suspend Gzip Compression Driver v1.0

Software Suspend LZF Compression Driver v1.0

Software Suspend Swap Writer v1.0

Starting kswapd

kinoded started

VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1

devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)

devfs: boot_options: 0x0

pty: 1024 Unix98 ptys configured

Serial driver version 5.1-alpha (2004-01-01) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled

ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A

ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A

RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4

ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx

PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:0f.1

PIIX4: chipset revision 1

PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later

ide0: BM-DMA at 0x3400-0x3407, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio

PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:10.0

PIIX4: device not capable of full native PCI mode

PIIX4: device disabled (BIOS)

PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later

PIIX4: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS)

hda: 50X CD-ROM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14

ide: late registration of driver.

md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27

md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.

md: autorun ...

md: ... autorun DONE.

Initializing Cryptographic API

NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0

IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP

IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes

TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)

Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM

NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.

SoftwareSuspend2: Swapwriter: Image location doesn't begin with 'swap:'<1>Swsusp 2.0-rc4: Missing or invalid storage location (resume2= parameter). Please correct and rerun lilo (or equivalent) before suspending.

Swsusp 2.0-rc4: kswsuspd starting

RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0

Freeing initrd memory: 158k freed

VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).

Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 2.4.28)

cpqarray: Device 0xae10 has been found at bus 10 dev 0 func 0

cpqarray: Finding drives on ida0 (Smart Array 3100ES)

cpqarray ida/c0d0: blksz=512 nr_blks=35536800

cpqarray ida/c0d1: blksz=512 nr_blks=213384000

blk: queue c049b680, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)

Partition check:

ida/c0d0: p1 p2 < p5 >

ida/c0d1: p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 >

reiserfs journal head cache initialized

reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal

reiserfs: using ordered data mode

reiserfs: checking transaction log (device ida0(72,1)) ...

for (ida0(72,1))

ida0(72,1):Using r5 hash to sort names

Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k freed

Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f

usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs

usb.c: registered new driver hub

usb.c: registered new driver hiddev

usb.c: registered new driver hid

hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>

hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers

mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice

SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00

sym0: <875> rev 0x4 on pci bus 0 device 13 function 0 irq 11

sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity checking

sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.

sym1: <875> rev 0x14 on pci bus 4 device 9 function 0 irq 11

sym1: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity checking

sym1: SCSI BUS has been reset.

sym2: <875> rev 0x14 on pci bus 4 device 9 function 1 irq 11

sym2: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity checking

sym2: SCSI BUS has been reset.

scsi0 : sym-2.1.17a

scsi1 : sym-2.1.17a

scsi2 : sym-2.1.17a

blk: queue c204a218, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)

Adding Swap: 8555736k swap-space (priority -1)

reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal

reiserfs: using ordered data mode

reiserfs: checking transaction log (device ida0(72,23)) ...

for (ida0(72,23))

ida0(72,23):Using r5 hash to sort names

reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal

reiserfs: using ordered data mode

reiserfs: checking transaction log (device ida0(72,22)) ...

for (ida0(72,22))

ida0(72,22):Using r5 hash to sort names

reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal

reiserfs: using ordered data mode

reiserfs: checking transaction log (device ida0(72,21)) ...

for (ida0(72,21))

ida0(72,21):Using r5 hash to sort names

reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal

reiserfs: using ordered data mode

reiserfs: checking transaction log (device ida0(72,17)) ...

for (ida0(72,17))

ida0(72,17):Using r5 hash to sort names

loop: loaded (max 8 devices)

hda: attached ide-cdrom driver.

hda: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)

Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12

eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html

eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg> and others

eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:50:8B:67:CF:B1, IRQ 5.

Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around.

Board assembly 692290-005, Physical connectors present: RJ45

Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.

General self-test: passed.

Serial sub-system self-test: passed.

Internal registers self-test: passed.

ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x24c9f043).

Receiver lock-up workaround activated.

eth1: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:50:8B:95:BD:0A, IRQ 15.

Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around.

Board assembly 009542-003, Physical connectors present: RJ45

Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.

General self-test: passed.

Serial sub-system self-test: passed.

Internal registers self-test: passed.

ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x24c9f043).

Receiver lock-up workaround activated.

eth2: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:50:8B:95:BD:0B, IRQ 5.

Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around.

Board assembly 009542-003, Physical connectors present: RJ45

Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.

General self-test: passed.

Serial sub-system self-test: passed.

Internal registers self-test: passed.

ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x24c9f043).

Receiver lock-up workaround activated.

 

When I try to boot to the normal linux kernel - it stops after udev loads. I get a msg that says "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7" - that is where it stops. I do not have any logs from when I tried to boot the 10.2 CD.

Edited October 2, 2005 by jdmarti1