hi there.
anyone have any tips on params to pass to the kernel etc in order to install Centos4 or Centos5 32bit or 64 bit installed on this unit
i can get it close to install, yet no cigar.
it is a tyan MB and ill try to get more info if needed...
for this case, please assume for now that the hardware itself is not "bad"
thanks in advance...
- rh
Rackable Systems Dual Opteron 2.0 GHz 1U Half-Depth Server
General Features: No Server Operating System Dual AMD Opteron 246 HE (OSK246CMP5AU) 2.0 GHz processors 4 GB DDR RAM 120 GB IDE hard drive ATI Rage XL integrated video Broadcom BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet
Motherboard Features: AMD-8111 chipset One (1) PCI-X riser slot Eight (8) DDR DIMM sockets
Front I/O Ports: Two (2) PS/2 ports One (1) 15-pin VGA port One (1) 9-pin serial port Two (2) USB ports Two (2) RJ-45 Ethernet jacks
Case Features: 1U half-depth server chassis One (1) 3.5-inch drive bay Four rear cooling fans 400-watt power supply
hi robert...
what issues are you having? what params are you using as of now...
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org]On Behalf Of RobertH Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 7:04 PM To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: [CentOS] getting Centos on "used" rackable systems 1U with dualOpteron 248 HE
hi there.
anyone have any tips on params to pass to the kernel etc in order to install Centos4 or Centos5 32bit or 64 bit installed on this unit
i can get it close to install, yet no cigar.
it is a tyan MB and ill try to get more info if needed...
for this case, please assume for now that the hardware itself is not "bad"
thanks in advance...
- rh
Rackable Systems Dual Opteron 2.0 GHz 1U Half-Depth Server
General Features: No Server Operating System Dual AMD Opteron 246 HE (OSK246CMP5AU) 2.0 GHz processors 4 GB DDR RAM 120 GB IDE hard drive ATI Rage XL integrated video Broadcom BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet
Motherboard Features: AMD-8111 chipset One (1) PCI-X riser slot Eight (8) DDR DIMM sockets
Front I/O Ports: Two (2) PS/2 ports One (1) 15-pin VGA port One (1) 9-pin serial port Two (2) USB ports Two (2) RJ-45 Ethernet jacks
Case Features: 1U half-depth server chassis One (1) 3.5-inch drive bay Four rear cooling fans 400-watt power supply
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Subject: Re: [CentOS] getting Centos on "used" rackable systems 1U withdualOpteron 248 HE
hi robert...
what issues are you having? what params are you using as of now...
ummmm basically with centos 4 or 5 64 bit, it is freezing when i get to the partitioning and want to continue forward or after partitioning and moving towards the ummmmm place where one chooses software.
4.7 seems to work better than 5.2
would not work in graphical install mode. hangs
so i went to
linux text
...and i am not using any kernel params *yet* other than one time i tried
nousb nousbstorage skipddc
just for the heck of it, which worked on old compaq DL380 servers hehehehe ;-)
what i will try next is to turn off power mgmt and apic or whatever
i was wondering if others had bought any of these boxes and played with them yet. they are pretty cheap and i have been looking for some cheap rackmount boxes that i can throw large ata ide drives in to do some things with
- rh
RobertH napsal(a):
ummmm basically with centos 4 or 5 64 bit, it is freezing when i get to the partitioning and want to continue forward or after partitioning and moving towards the ummmmm place where one chooses software.
Hi, are those disks totally empty or there are some partitions? Try to look at them with fdisk. BTW sometimes Anaconda fails on disks with partitions. Deleting partitions helps before install, sometimes I have to "create a new empty DOS partition table" with fdisk. Regards, David
David Hrbác wrote:
are those disks totally empty or there are some partitions? Try to look at them with fdisk. BTW sometimes Anaconda fails on disks with partitions. Deleting partitions helps before install, sometimes I have to "create a new empty DOS partition table" with fdisk
or my old standby, boot the centos cd to single user mode, and execute
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1024 count=1024
this zeros the first megabyte of the disk, wiping all traces of partition tables. power cycle to clear the state of -everything-, *then* boot the installer...
Hi, are those disks totally empty or there are some partitions? Try to look at them with fdisk. BTW sometimes Anaconda fails on disks with partitions. Deleting partitions helps before install, sometimes I have to "create a new empty DOS partition table" with fdisk. Regards, David
thank you for all that responded.
the disk appeared wiped and without partitions..., yet it wasnt and even though it would allow me to partition it, the software install did not want to play ball with a disk that did not have a partitiion removed even though you could not see it so to speak.
the machines are screamerssssssssssss...
thanks again
-rh
the machines are screamerssssssssssss...
As in sound like an industrial strength vacuum clearer?
Where did you get them? What did you pay for them?
I've seen similar boxes dual 3.0 GHz Xenons upgradable to 12GB RAM SATA RAID controller from an unfortunately unreliable source.
RobertH schrieb:
i was wondering if others had bought any of these boxes and played with them yet. they are pretty cheap and i have been looking for some cheap rackmount boxes that i can throw large ata ide drives in to do some things with
Just for kicks, can you try: - installing FreeBSD 7.1 64bit - installing a FreeBSD8 snapshot from recently - Windows 2003 server - OpenSolaris - Ubuntu (server) ?
If none of these work, I'd toss it ;-) There may be a reason why they were cheap...
Rainer
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org]On Behalf Of RobertH Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 10:04 PM To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: [CentOS] getting Centos on "used" rackable systems 1U with dual Opteron 248 HE
hi there.
anyone have any tips on params to pass to the kernel etc in order to install Centos4 or Centos5 32bit or 64 bit installed on this unit [snip] for this case, please assume for now that the hardware itself is not "bad"
thanks in advance...
[david] Have you checked install logs for error messages? During install it is displayed on one of the virtual consoles. Not sure which. One of the Install User Guides documents the purpose of each one used and the key combinations [david] needed to switch between them. I think it's ALT+(something)+Fn(n=1...).
You can also boot from the live CD to run diagnostics.
David Ross
- rh
Rackable Systems Dual Opteron 2.0 GHz 1U Half-Depth Server
General Features: No Server Operating System Dual AMD Opteron 246 HE (OSK246CMP5AU) 2.0 GHz processors 4 GB DDR RAM 120 GB IDE hard drive ATI Rage XL integrated video Broadcom BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet
Motherboard Features: AMD-8111 chipset One (1) PCI-X riser slot Eight (8) DDR DIMM sockets
Front I/O Ports: Two (2) PS/2 ports One (1) 15-pin VGA port One (1) 9-pin serial port Two (2) USB ports Two (2) RJ-45 Ethernet jacks
Case Features: 1U half-depth server chassis One (1) 3.5-inch drive bay Four rear cooling fans 400-watt power supply
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