"New" machine being stubborn about Liquorix
Runaway1956
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Well, I got this monster machine all set up, and the OS installed. I attempted to install the Liquorix kernel, and got an ugly green screen at boot. Tried it again - and again - and it just doesn't work for me. I've upgraded my Nvidia driver as far as I can from the Debian/Siduction repositories. I also tried the newest Nvidia drivers directly from Nvidia.

I've tried the current Liquorix kernel, 4.1, as well as the previous, 4.0.

Finally, I says to myself, "Hey, Stupid, maybe Liquorix is incompatible with SERVER BOARDS?!?!?!"

So, I'm thinking. ECC memory? Some setting in the Bios? I know that Liquorix is optimised for desktop/workstation usage - maybe I'm trying to force something on the hardware that it's not capable of?

I'll welcome suggestions/observations/ideas here. This is the result of inxi -F:

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guy@awesome:~$ inxi -F
System:    Host: awesome Kernel: 4.0.0-2-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit)
           Desktop: Enlightenment 0.19.99.19943 Distro: Sparky 4 Tyche
Machine:   Mobo: Supermicro model: H8DM8-2 v: 1234567890
           Bios: American Megatrends v: 080014 date: 10/22/2009
CPU(s):    2 Hexa core Six-Core AMD Opteron 2425 HEs (-HT-MCP-SMP-) cache: 6144 KB
           Clock Speeds: 1: 1100 MHz 2: 800 MHz 3: 800 MHz 4: 800 MHz
           5: 800 MHz 6: 2100 MHz 7: 2100 MHz 8: 800 MHz 9: 800 MHz
           10: 800 MHz 11: 800 MHz 12: 800 MHz
Graphics:  Card-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] ES1000
           Card-2: NVIDIA GK208 [GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.17.2 driver: nvidia
           Resolution: 1024x768@60.00hz, 1280x1024@75.02hz
           GLX Renderer: GeForce GT 630/PCIe/SSE2
           GLX Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 346.82
Audio:     Card-1 NVIDIA Device 0e0f driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-2 Plantronics driver: USB Audio
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.0.0-2-amd64
Network:   Card-1: NVIDIA MCP55 Ethernet driver: forcedeth
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full
           mac: 00:30:48:c8:16:72
           Card-2: NVIDIA MCP55 Ethernet driver: forcedeth
           IF: eth1 state: down mac: 00:30:48:c8:16:73
           Card-3: Realtek RTL8187 Wireless Adapter driver: rtl8187
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: 00:e0:4c:91:8b:9c
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 800.2GB (43.0% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sdb model: MKNSSDCR240GB size: 240.1GB
           ID-2: /dev/sda model: MKNSSDCR240GB size: 240.1GB
           ID-3: /dev/sdc model: WDC_WD3200AUDX size: 320.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 28G used: 6.1G (24%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
           ID-2: /home size: 185G used: 17G (10%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 11.21GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdc1
           ID-4: swap-2 size: 4.91GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb3
           ID-5: swap-3 size: 8.80GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda1
Sensors:   None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info:      Processes: 227 Uptime: 40 min Memory: 943.8/22164.1MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.1.28

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Never mind!
Runaway1956
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I have discovered the Siduction repositories.

inxi
CPU(s)~2 Hexa core Six-Core AMD Opteron 2425 HEs (-HT-MCP-SMP-) clocked at Min:800.000Mhz Max:2100.000Mhz Kernel~4.1.2-towo.2-siduction-amd64 x86_64 Up~14 min Mem~425.4/22164.9MB HDD~800.2GB(44.3% used) Procs~258 Client~Shell inxi~2.1.28


That towo or siduction kernel loads just fine, and uses the same driver that works with the stock kernel. I am happy enough - no point in beating my head against the wall!
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damentz
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Ya, Liquorix is a kernel tuned for desktop / laptop usage. You can try using it on server hardware but it's not tested there, unfortunately.

But, I'm happy you found out about towo's kernel on siduction. His kernel configuration is tuned more for stock usage (besides full preemption), and last time I checked, had BFQ patches merged. A great alternative if Liquorix doesn't work out for you.
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