[ILUG] Problem running 2.2.16 SMP on Compaq Proliant 800

[David Murphy]

Quoting <Pine.LNX.4.21.0006261646010.3203-100000 at rossi.itg.ie>
by Paul Jakma <paulj at itg.ie>:

> On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, David Murphy wrote:
> 
> > We have a Compaq Proliant 800 (dual PPro/180) which we're trying to
> > recycle as a Linux machine. While it would run NT's SMP kernel just
> > fine, we're not having similar success with Linux:
> 
> iirc.. F10 compaq utilities, ^A for advanced mode -> configure
> hardware. Set smp mode (or similar) to unixware 7.

http://potter.ieee.uh.edu/compaq.html has the complete description -
I don't know if it's the old keyboard, or my reactions, but hitting
F10 didn't get me into the compaq utils, but
other=/dev/ida/c0d0p1
	label=diags
in lilo.conf did the trick for me.

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