On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 00:01 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 21:01 -0700, Sean O'Connell wrote:
I do see the 3Ware BIOS at boot. Trouble is once the box has booted, no love.
Oh, so you _are_ seeing the 3Ware BIOS.
If you go into the "Boot" portion of the Phoenix ServerBIOS, you should also see the 3Ware card as a boot option under disks (and can move around the order) -- correct?
So now it looks like it might be the Linux kernel.
See above. Card is seen during POST. Yeppers. No love.
Hmmm, it's a "long shot," but you could try the nForce package from nVidia. I seriously doubt it will do a thing, because the package is pretty much just peripheral support (ATA, NIC, audio etc...), GPL components that are already in stock kernel 2.4.23+/2.6.5+ (with exception of the older/alternative OSS audio and older NIC drivers).
The APIC, I2C, PCI, etc... issues are not what those packages address. I.e., when most people say "a chipset is not supported by Linux," they are talking about the peripheral components in the chipset, not the core APIC, I2C, PCI, etc...
BTW, I saw a note on the nVidia CK04 (nVidia Pro 2200) chipset in Red Hat Bugzilla, but it seemed unrelated. It was also for CentOS 3, not CentOS 4. No searches anywhere are turning up issues with 3Ware cards on the S2895 mainboard.
Hmmm... I need to see what version of the BIOS is on this thing. When in doubt, flash the BIOS.
http://www.tyan.com/support/html/b_s2895.html
One of the items in the listing is..
* Fixed some PCI-X device Option ROM does not scan or * initialize correctly
As for seeing the 3ware card under the boot order list, there are a couple of entries that might be the 3Ware card (it's not spelled out explicitly), and I don't recall the exact notation. One might be the PXE nic and the other could be the 3Ware card.