Anyone get Linux on a Shuttle SpaceWalker SS40?

Anyone get Linux on a Shuttle SpaceWalker SS40?

[Ben Greear]

I got a cute (and very quiet) SS40 bare-bones system.  I put an
Athlon 1.8 and 256MB DDR (Generic, Samsung chips), and a cheap Maxtor 20GB HD.

RH 7.3 crashes (signal 11) in the /sbin/loader.

RH 7.2 Locks hard while transferring the image to the HD, but at least
   it gets a little way into the install.

Mandrake 8.2  crashes (similar to RH 7.3, it appears) in the second
stage loader.

So, I'm curious if anyone has managed to get Linux on one of these guys?

Here are the hardware specs:
http://www.shuttle.com/english/mcs_detail_info.asp?number=174


Thanks,
Ben

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Re: Anyone get Linux on a Shuttle SpaceWalker SS40?

[Erik Andersen]

On Fri Jun 21, 2002 at 05:00:09PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> I got a cute (and very quiet) SS40 bare-bones system.  I put an
> Athlon 1.8 and 256MB DDR (Generic, Samsung chips), and a cheap Maxtor 20GB 
> HD.

Perhaps the "very quiet" is a clue...  No fan?

 -Erik

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Re: Anyone get Linux on a Shuttle SpaceWalker SS40?

[Ben Greear]

Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Fri Jun 21, 2002 at 05:00:09PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> 
>>I got a cute (and very quiet) SS40 bare-bones system.  I put an
>>Athlon 1.8 and 256MB DDR (Generic, Samsung chips), and a cheap Maxtor 20GB 
>>HD.
> 
> 
> Perhaps the "very quiet" is a clue...  No fan?
> 
>  -Erik

Give me a little credit :)

The bios has a temperature controlled fan, and I explicitly
tested that the fan comes on high when it gets warmer..and spins
slower when it's cool.

The bios reported temperature was about 47degres C, well within
spec for an Athlon.

Ben

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Re: Anyone get Linux on a Shuttle SpaceWalker SS40?

[Ben Greear]

I tried with a new stick of crucial 256MB DDR today, and the problem
was exactly identical, so it's probably not the memory.

I would try the latest pre-patch kernel, but I am not sure how go do about
doing that since I can't get a distro to load...

Ben


Ben Greear wrote:
> I got a cute (and very quiet) SS40 bare-bones system.  I put an
> Athlon 1.8 and 256MB DDR (Generic, Samsung chips), and a cheap Maxtor 
> 20GB HD.
> 
> RH 7.3 crashes (signal 11) in the /sbin/loader.
> 
> RH 7.2 Locks hard while transferring the image to the HD, but at least
>   it gets a little way into the install.
> 
> Mandrake 8.2  crashes (similar to RH 7.3, it appears) in the second
> stage loader.
> 
> So, I'm curious if anyone has managed to get Linux on one of these guys?
> 
> Here are the hardware specs:
> http://www.shuttle.com/english/mcs_detail_info.asp?number=174
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
> 



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Re: Anyone get Linux on a Shuttle SpaceWalker SS40?

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Ben Greear wrote:

> I tried with a new stick of crucial 256MB DDR today, and the problem
> was exactly identical, so it's probably not the memory.
> 
> I would try the latest pre-patch kernel, but I am not sure how go do about
> doing that since I can't get a distro to load...

You can use the distro bootdisks and replace the kernel on them, i have to 
do this with some to use newer SCSI controllers for example.

Cheers,
	Zwane

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