Yeah I know fedora core 12 works well along with ubuntu 8.04, thats what I am running now with later kernel, I just like to run centos on my production servers...neither of the latter exhibit the same condition that I saw with centos5.4. I have updated the bios to the latest 2.07 but had already loaded ubuntu 8.04 and running that right now :( since I needed to get something working, may wait till rhel6 comes along and switch when that sees the light of day, although I'm not sure when that might be...lol
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Thomas Harold thomas-lists@nybeta.comwrote:
On 1/4/2010 10:09 AM, Tom Bishop wrote:
Was wondering if anyone has any luck with the Tyan s4985 motherboard, I had loaded up the latest 5.4 release and in installed most everything that I wanted but when I loaded it up, as in processor wise it would lock up. Funny thing I could still ssh to it but not do a su - or anything from the console. I think it is kernel related and tried the previous kernel but it still exhibited the same symptom. The only thing I saw in the log was a message about a soft lockup on cpu0, there is a open bug for that but from the description doesn't appear to cause any issues. I am running 4 opteron 8356 just for clarification....
Looks like 207 is the latest: http://www.tyan.com/support_download_bios.aspx?model=S.S4985
According to the OS support matrix: http://www.tyan.com/tech/OS_Support_AMDRedHat5.aspx
Not all embedded components have drivers (2c = SATA RAID), which should only indicate that the fake-RAID doesn't work in RHEL 5 64bit.
Try booting other live CDs? Including some from other 64bit distros that might have a more recent kernel? _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos