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Fun with CentOS and Windows
by Mark Hull-Richter 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

I installed the memory and the CPU and the motherboard and the new video card all together tonight. CentOS installed very nicely and I'm currently running the CentOS-Plus version, with which I _can_ access my Windows partitions. Well, one of the disks is getting flaky and I'm having trouble with it - of course, that's the one I need the most. Glitches, with which I would be delighted to obtain feedback and/or advice: 1) In the boot screen, it tells me "CPU0 Memory information: single channel, 64-bits." I have 2Gb of DDR2 PC6400 (800MHz) memory - is this a problem, or does it mean something else entirely? (ECS NFORCE4M-A m/b, Phoenix BIOS 6.00PG) 2) While the system is booting up, it tells me: MP-BUG: 8254 timer is not connected to APIC What does this mean and is there a way around it? 3) CentOS does not appear to have the drivers for my video card or monitor. I have an e-GEForce 7100gs card and an Envision en910e monitor (yeah, that old 19" CRT that has been working fine for 3+ years). How can I get more than 800x600 (need 1280x1024 to work properly? And please don't say buy a new monitor - no money for that for a while.... 4) Here's the bad part (sort of) - I can't boot my Windows any more. It comes part way up and reboots, whether I try to run Safe Mode (hahahahahaha) or Crashing (I mean Normal) Mode. The video card is different, and I thought that might be the problem, but it should come up in safe mode no matter what - no video driver loaded. (I also went from a P4 to an Athlon 64 X2 - could that be part/all of it?). Some of this might be O/T, so please point me at the right place if so (except that last one - there is no right place for that stuff....)-; Thanks. mhr (aka mhull-richter(a)datallegro.com) -- [This message is sent in strict accordance with both Google and Yahoo Terms of Service. If you are receiving this second-hand, this sender disclaims all responsibility for your response.]

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4.4 on ESX 2.5.4
by Dhivan Djaganu 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

hi All, I followed this and installed 4.4 on ESX 2.5.4 without a hitch. Any pitfalls I shall be aware of before I try yup update? TIA

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What's the best way to convert a whole set of file systems?
by Mark Hull-Richter 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

I am currently running a Windows XP system at home with around 100+ Mb in use over ~400Mb of NTFS file systems. I am installing CentOS 4.4 on it when I change out the mobo/cpu/mem/video combo I just bought. I want to convert all the file systems to (probably) Reiserfs or maybe ext3, but I need to do them one at a time because I only have enough transfer space to accommodate the largest one, or at least that's my belief. That would mean at least two copies per partition converted, and I have six partitions to convert, from ~14Gb to over 85Gb (in one, only - the rest are 30Gb or smaller). 1) Is there a good way to do whole fs conversions, specifically from NTFS to reiserfs or ext3? 2) Do I even need to do this (i.e., do any of the CentOS/Linux kernels support read AND write to NTFS)? 3) Is there, by any chance, and in-place converter from NTFS to any Linux fs, preferably reiserfs or ext3? Also, the last time I installed CentOS on a system (I've done about six or seven so far) I don't remember seeing reiserfs as one of the supported fs's for configuring during the installation process - am I blind or is this really the case? I like reiserfs primarily because it is really good with many small files, and I have tons of them - around 100k files under 10k. Thanks. mhr

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Upgrading RH EL by CentOS
by Joachim Backes 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

Hi, is it possible to upgrade a RH EL system with version x to a CentOS system with a version > x? All comments are welcome. Regards Joachim Backes <joachim.backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de> University of Kaiserslautern,Computer Center [RHRK], Systems and Operations, High Performance Computing, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, PO Box 3049, Germany -------------------------------------------------- Phone: +49-631-205-2438, FAX: +49-631-205-3056 http://hlrwm.rhrk.uni-kl.de/home/staff/backes.html

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Configuration Help with HA/VirtualIP
by Todd Reed 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

I've been bashing my head into a wall the past few days on this. I am trying to setup a Load Balanced MySQL Cluster. I can get the MySQL NDB Clusters working, but when I try to install the HA Load Balancers, I can't get past the step of the shared Virtual IP. I'm basing my sequence on HowToForge Guide written for Debain (http://www.howtoforge.com/loadbalanced_mysql_cluster_debian_p7) I've added my own tweaks and use the appropriate CentOS x64 commands and configurations. I am creating a loopback interface with the following configs: vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo:0 DEVICE=lo:0 IPADDR=10.98.51.10 NETMASK=255.255.254.0 NETWORK=10.98.50.0 # If you're having problems with gated making 127.0.0.0/8 a martian, # you can change this to something else (255.255.255.255, for example) BROADCAST=10.98.51.255 ONBOOT=yes NAME=loopback The Guide shows this for Debian vi /etc/network/interfaces auto lo:0 iface lo:0 inet static address 192.168.0.105 netmask 255.255.255.255 pre-up sysctl -p > /dev/null I think I am almost there, but just can't place my figure on my error. Can anyone help guide me?

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Status of sky2 NIC lockup bug
by Mailing Lists 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

Does anyone know if the "sky2 transmitter lockup" bug that was in 4.4 has been resolved in CentOS 5? This bug causes the sky2 NIC driver to lock up when transferring large amounts of data through the NIC. Here is a link to the bug at CentOS: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1540 The status still says "open". Thanks, Joe

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RE: [CentOS] Centos 4 on Terminator C3
by Justin Randall 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

It may sound a bit strange but I had a similar problem with an ASUS mobo with a Via chipset a long time ago and that problem was actually related to the dynamic discovery of memory clocking speeds. For some reason it was negotiating a higher memory clocking speed then the memory supported. What ended up fixing the issue was going into the BIOS and statically assigning the memory clocking speed. Of course the downside to this is that this setting would need to be changed anytime you upgrade your memory some with a different clocking rate. It may not be what you're experiencing but maybe worth a shot. How far into the boot process does your computers reboot again? Justin. -----Original Message----- From: centos(a)911networks.com [mailto:centos@911networks.com] Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 10:44 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Centos 4 on Terminator C3 I am trying to install Centos 4 on an Asus terminator c3 with the via chipset. It keeps on rebooting. It won't install. It's a P3 800Mhz made by Via with 512Mb RAM. I have searched and found nothing about it. Any suggestion? -- Thanks _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Hardware RAID monitoring
by Devraj Mukherjee 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

Hi Everyone, Any ideas of tools that one can use to report errors etc for hardware RAID? -- "I never look back darling, it distracts from the now", Edna Mode (The Incredibles)

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SPF, Sendmail and Centos4.4
by Yahoo POP 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

Does anyone have any experience with adding SPF support to sendmail?? Thank you, -ed-

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wiki howto on custom kernel
by John R Pierce 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

minor error on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel?highlight=%28HowTos%29 the rpmbuild steps specifies kernel.spec, when in fact the filename is kernel-2.6.spec, at least with 2.6.9-42.0.10.EL this occurs a BUNCH of times on that wiki page... also kernel2.6.9 -> kernel-2.6.9 on the cp command after 'configuring your kernel'

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