I have 60 HS20's running CentOS 3.4, but I do the install via the xcat toolset over nfs.

Have you looked at xcat yet to manage the os on your blades? Well worth the time to setup, written primarily by IBM, and free.

http://www.xcat.org/

BTW, what processors are in your blades? I'm running the 3.2GHz Nocona's, if your are similar you'll probably need to use these kernel parameters in your grub.conf:

acpi=noirq noexec=off noapic

And if you do go with nfs installs via xcat, the tg3 driver in 3.4 is broken. E-mail me and I'll send you the work-around. It's already in xcat but it takes a bit of finesse to apply the fix.

John Burk

Sr. Technical Director Mainframe Entertainment

604.628.1019

Brendon Colby wrote:

Greetings,

We have purchased an IBM BladeCenter and I am in the process of testing Linux installation on these things (boot off SAN i.e. qla2300 driver, not using internal drives). My distro of choice is Debian, however, since I'm really not interested in trying to hand compile all the drivers, I decided to try CentOS (which I'm so far very impressed with).

On boot, as with the Debian Sarge disk, the CDROM disappears. The installation media complains that it cannot find the CD. I'm testing using the DVD ISO of CentOS 4. Has anyone been successful in getting CentOS 3/4 installed on a BladeCenter server? I noticed back in 11/04 there were a few posts on it.

Thanks.

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