Robert Moskowitz wrote:

I did the install onto the HD in the Compaq, set inittab to 3 and moved the HD to the decTOP.

I booted without the ethernet USB dongle, and after I was logged in, I plugged it in. I had to bring up eth0 and start dhclient. But the network is working.

But X is not. Different video.

/etc/sysconf/hwconf has the right info:

Class: VIDEO bus: PCI detach: 0 desc: "National Semiconductor Corporation Geode GX2 Graphics Processor" vendorId: 100b deviceId: 0030 subvendorId: 100b subdeviceId: 0030 pciType: 1 pcidom: 0 pcibus: 0 pcidev: 1 pcifn: 1

So how do I 'fix' X?

Does 'system-config-display' get anywhere? If not, post another message here with a more descriptive subject and the part that looks like the problem from your /var/log/Xorg.0.log and maybe someone who knows more about X will jump in.

From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell

Robert Moskowitz wrote:

...

I have a bug report in (0002288) on an install failure on

my decTOPs

...

(Centos 4.5 installed on them).

I have tried a lot of combinations and it is getting tiring.

What what happen, or rather how do I get the following to work:

Put my HD into a computer (Compaq SSF that I have installed

Centos 5 on

...

with no trouble), install Centos 5, move the HD to the decTOP.

Different Video card. No PS/2 keyboard of mouse on the decTOP INTEL vs AMD cpu

Could it work?

As long as the disk controller is the same type you should be able to bring it up and fix everything else. I'd set it up to not start X (init level 3) so you can reconfigure it before it tries to start. You may have to fix or remove the HWADDR= line in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file since it won't match the NIC.

The controller isn't as important as making sure whichever controllers you are using are included in the initrd image by listing them all in modprobe.conf and doing a mkinitrd beforehand.

Make sure the scsi_hostadapter lines in modprobe.conf are in the proper order so the boot controller always appears before any other storage controller and your drives are strung off the boot controller in the right order.

Then if you are using mounts like /dev/sda that the controllers will recognize the drives in the proper order, or switch to disk labels for mounting / and /boot. Personnally I use a label for /boot and LVM for the rest of the drive, allocating root, swap and home LVs.

-Ross

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