[CentOS] CentOS 5.1 Core 2 Duo Install freezes
Ken Price
kprice at nowyouknow.net
Sat Feb 9 03:32:28 UTC 2008
> Ken Price wrote:
>
>> Anyone out there with similar problems and/or workarounds? Any ideas?
>
> install using a serial console, and capture the entire kernel panic
> from the console if you can. Have you tried any disk controllers other
> than the promise ?
>
> For me, if hardware SATA raid, it's 3Ware or nothing. I haven't ever
> really noticed good things said about other SATA raid cards.
>
This is using the onboard SATA, or the promise SATA controller (not a
RAID controller). Yeah, I've had problems capturing the entire panic.
I'll try via a terminal on monday morning.
I agree with the 3ware comment. My high-end MySQL and NFS boxes have
8-port 3Ware SATA RAID.
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