[suse-sles-e] Bug in SLES8 kernel 2.4.x freezing HP DL740/760

From: Oliver Antwerpen (antwerpen_at_netsquare.de)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2005 - 10:04:36 CET


Message-ID: <4215AFA4.8080409@netsquare.de>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:04:36 +0100
From: Oliver Antwerpen <antwerpen@netsquare.de>
Subject: [suse-sles-e] Bug in SLES8 kernel 2.4.x freezing HP DL740/760

Hi out there,

If there is anybody out there using SLES8 on HP ProLiant DL740/760:
BEWARE!

SuSE has patched UNICON into the kernel which will cause these servers
to completely hang when booted with vga=normal and lots of text rushing
over the console. The system will run fine in fb-mode, but not in plain
text.

I cannot see, where this UNICON-patch comes from, it seems that is has
been developed by some turbolinux-coders.

I hope this information will help someone to not run into deep trouble.

Oliver Antwerpen

-- 
Murphy was an optimist
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