We are migrating from Fermi Labs linux distro to the Centos 3.6 distro. So far all of the Dell's we have installed on have worked fine but we have two generic servers that are using Tyan Thunder K7X motherboards with built in Adaptec Ultra 160 SCSI using AIC7899 chipset. When we try to install on these systems the install cd seems to lockup loading the AIC7xxx driver. Adaptec says they do not support OEM embedded products and Tyan says that any embedded firmware is included in the bios upgrades which we have upgraded.
We can migrate "online" by following the White-box to Centos migrate instructions and that works fine but it worries me that if I lost a hard drive in one of these systems I could not install Centos directly.
Any suggestions for work arounds?
Thanks Rich A.
On 01/03/06, Benjamin Smith lists@benjamindsmith.com wrote:
On Monday 20 February 2006 08:07, Richard Andrews wrote:
Any suggestions for work arounds?
I've occasionally seen older releases work where newer ones failed.
He could also consider PXE booting.
Will.
Will McDonald wrote:
On 01/03/06, Benjamin Smith lists@benjamindsmith.com wrote:
On Monday 20 February 2006 08:07, Richard Andrews wrote:
Any suggestions for work arounds?
I've occasionally seen older releases work where newer ones failed.
He could also consider PXE booting.
Or try using the old_aic7xxx driver instead. Try searching for that on the web.
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 09:07 -0700, Richard Andrews wrote:
We are migrating from Fermi Labs linux distro to the Centos 3.6 distro. So far all of the Dell's we have installed on have worked fine but we have two generic servers that are using Tyan Thunder K7X motherboards with built in Adaptec Ultra 160 SCSI using AIC7899 chipset. When we try to install on these systems the install cd seems to lockup loading the AIC7xxx driver. Adaptec says they do not support OEM embedded products and Tyan says that any embedded firmware is included in the bios upgrades which we have upgraded.
We can migrate "online" by following the White-box to Centos migrate instructions and that works fine but it worries me that if I lost a hard drive in one of these systems I could not install Centos directly.
Any suggestions for work arounds?
Thread is a bit stale, but 2 suggestions:
On a similar system, I installed an inexpensive ATA controller and hard drive and then "cloned" the installed system to the SCSI drive.
May work with later CentOS versions, but I presume you have some reason for using 3.6 so that is probably not helpful.
Phil
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