Hello all,
I just been wasting time with an Asus mobo trying to get CentOS/RHEL up and running for my home lab using Xen Technologies and need an advice in order to have a fully working Box, got any suggestions?
which chipsets are the best out of the box for Centos AMD platform (AMD based, nVidia based, Ati Based)? (this could be a plus)
I already have the AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Processor AM2 Socket, 6Gb RAM to use(maybe more), a IBM Netserver xSeries 205 Case and a 250gb SATA HD.
thanks in advance.
Cheers.
Victor Padro wrote:
Hello all,
I just been wasting time with an Asus mobo trying to get CentOS/RHEL up and running for my home lab using Xen Technologies and need an advice in order to have a fully working Box, got any suggestions?
Use acpi=off or noapic to deal with broken Asus bioses.
Next time, buy MSI or A-bit.
On Tuesday 03 June 2008 02:07:12 am Christopher Chan wrote:
Victor Padro wrote:
Hello all,
I just been wasting time with an Asus mobo trying to get CentOS/RHEL up and running for my home lab using Xen Technologies and need an advice in order to have a fully working Box, got any suggestions?
Use acpi=off or noapic to deal with broken Asus bioses.
Next time, buy MSI or A-bit.
Doesn't MSI require you to have windows for bios updates?
Peter.
on 6-3-2008 2:22 AM Peter Arremann spake the following:
On Tuesday 03 June 2008 02:07:12 am Christopher Chan wrote:
Victor Padro wrote:
Hello all,
I just been wasting time with an Asus mobo trying to get CentOS/RHEL up and running for my home lab using Xen Technologies and need an advice in order to have a fully working Box, got any suggestions?
Use acpi=off or noapic to deal with broken Asus bioses.
Next time, buy MSI or A-bit.
Doesn't MSI require you to have windows for bios updates?
Peter.
Most boards I have had usually had a floppy image available on the website for bioses. Only live update is the windows only software.
On Tuesday 03 June 2008 16:04:54 Scott Silva wrote:
on 6-3-2008 2:22 AM Peter Arremann spake the following:
On Tuesday 03 June 2008 02:07:12 am Christopher Chan wrote:
Victor Padro wrote:
Hello all,
I just been wasting time with an Asus mobo trying to get CentOS/RHEL up and running for my home lab using Xen Technologies and need an advice in order to have a fully working Box, got any suggestions?
Use acpi=off or noapic to deal with broken Asus bioses.
Next time, buy MSI or A-bit.
Doesn't MSI require you to have windows for bios updates?
Peter.
Most boards I have had usually had a floppy image available on the website for bioses. Only live update is the windows only software.
Or you can sometimes boot with the m/board driver disk to flash the bios, putting the new bios file on a floppy or USB pendrive.. john
Or you can sometimes boot with the m/board driver disk to flash the bios, putting the new bios file on a floppy or USB pendrive.. john
Already did that, flashed it to the last version, and flashed it backwards, no possitive results neither way, nevertheless I was able to install RHEL 5.2 i386, x86_64 without any issue. The AHCI or even SATA worked ok.
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Thanks,
Victor
on 6-4-2008 8:06 AM Victor Padro spake the following:
Or you can sometimes boot with the m/board driver disk to flash the bios, putting the new bios file on a floppy or USB pendrive.. johnAlready did that, flashed it to the last version, and flashed it backwards, no possitive results neither way, nevertheless I was able to install RHEL 5.2 i386, x86_64 without any issue. The AHCI or even SATA worked ok.
Well CentOS 5.2 "should" be out in a couple of weeks. I'm sure the build servers are humming away right now.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Scott Silva Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 8:12 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Re: I need hardware advice here
on 6-4-2008 8:06 AM Victor Padro spake the following:
Or you can sometimes boot with the m/board driver diskto flash the
bios, putting the new bios file on a floppy or USB pendrive.. johnAlready did that, flashed it to the last version, and flashed it backwards, no possitive results neither way, nevertheless I
was able
to install RHEL 5.2 i386, x86_64 without any issue. The
AHCI or even
SATA worked ok.
Well CentOS 5.2 "should" be out in a couple of weeks. I'm sure the build servers are humming away right now.
I had a similar issue when trying our Fedora 9 on my NEW Gigabyte mboard. It would install, but not boot. Turned out Grub was writing it as /dev/hda during install, but on reboot, it was /dev/sda. I fixed it by boot of the F9 dvd, into rescue mode, chrooting, and re-running grub install and specified sda. Perhaps this is your issue. (I haven't followed the whole thread...) Seems to be happening on just very recent motherboards, based on the little bit of Googling I did. http://www.groupsrv.com/linux/post-866681.html HTH, Dennis
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Dennis McLeod dmcleod@foranyauto.com wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Scott Silva Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 8:12 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Re: I need hardware advice here
on 6-4-2008 8:06 AM Victor Padro spake the following:
Or you can sometimes boot with the m/board driver diskto flash the
bios, putting the new bios file on a floppy or USB pendrive.. johnAlready did that, flashed it to the last version, and flashed it backwards, no possitive results neither way, nevertheless I
was able
to install RHEL 5.2 i386, x86_64 without any issue. The
AHCI or even
SATA worked ok.
Well CentOS 5.2 "should" be out in a couple of weeks. I'm sure the build servers are humming away right now.
I had a similar issue when trying our Fedora 9 on my NEW Gigabyte mboard. It would install, but not boot. Turned out Grub was writing it as /dev/hda during install, but on reboot, it was /dev/sda. I fixed it by boot of the F9 dvd, into rescue mode, chrooting, and re-running grub install and specified sda. Perhaps this is your issue. (I haven't followed the whole thread...) Seems to be happening on just very recent motherboards, based on the little bit of Googling I did. http://www.groupsrv.com/linux/post-866681.html HTH, Dennis
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Actually I did that but there was no solution like you said: # chroot /mnt/sysimage # grub-install /dev/sda I even tried: # grub-install /dev/sda2 # grub-install /dev/hda but there was no possitive result and couldn't boot at all. I tried installing FC9 but there was no sucess at all.
I guess I'll wait until CentOS 5.2 its released, because my subscription to Red Hat will finish sometime in September, mean while I'll test Xen under RHEL 5.2.
Thank you all.
Victor.
On Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:07 PM, Victor Padro wrote:
Actually I did that but there was no solution like you said: # chroot /mnt/sysimage # grub-install /dev/sda I even tried: # grub-install /dev/sda2 # grub-install /dev/hda but there was no possitive result and couldn't boot at all. I tried installing FC9 but there was no sucess at all.
I guess I'll wait until CentOS 5.2 its released, because my subscription to Red Hat will finish sometime in September, mean while I'll test Xen under RHEL 5.2.
Since you installed using AHCI, but then changed to SATA (hence the kernel panic), you probably need to rebuild the initrd image (see mkinitrd) from rescue mode.
Steve
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:21 AM, S.Tindall tindalls.gr9x@osccc.com wrote:
On Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:07 PM, Victor Padro wrote:
Actually I did that but there was no solution like you said: # chroot /mnt/sysimage # grub-install /dev/sda I even tried: # grub-install /dev/sda2 # grub-install /dev/hda but there was no possitive result and couldn't boot at all. I tried installing FC9 but there was no sucess at all.
I guess I'll wait until CentOS 5.2 its released, because my subscription to Red Hat will finish sometime in September, mean while I'll test Xen under RHEL 5.2.
Since you installed using AHCI, but then changed to SATA (hence the kernel panic), you probably need to rebuild the initrd image (see mkinitrd) from rescue mode.
Steve
How can I rebuild the initrd image if it doesn't see the HD? I tried that...I having the conclusion that perhaps it's the sata_nv and the AHCI drivers provided in CentOS/RHEL 5, 5.1 that they're not well compiled or something because I did install using RHEL 4. that's kinda odd to me...
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On Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:31 PM, Victor Padro wrote:
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:21 AM, S.Tindall tindalls.gr9x@osccc.com wrote:
On Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:07 PM, Victor Padro wrote:
Actually I did that but there was no solution like you said: # chroot /mnt/sysimage # grub-install /dev/sda I even tried: # grub-install /dev/sda2 # grub-install /dev/hda but there was no possitive result and couldn't boot at all. I tried installing FC9 but there was no sucess at all.
I guess I'll wait until CentOS 5.2 its released, because my subscription to Red Hat will finish sometime in September, mean while I'll test Xen under RHEL 5.2.
Since you installed using AHCI, but then changed to SATA (hence the kernel panic), you probably need to rebuild the initrd image (see mkinitrd) from rescue mode.
Steve
How can I rebuild the initrd image if it doesn't see the HD? I tried that...I having the conclusion that perhaps it's the sata_nv and the AHCI drivers provided in CentOS/RHEL 5, 5.1 that they're not well compiled or something because I did install using RHEL 4. that's kinda odd to me...
My misunderstanding. I thought you were implying that you could successfully mount in rescue mode.
Steve
Victor Padro wrote:
I just been wasting time with an Asus mobo trying to get CentOS/RHEL up and running for my home lab using Xen Technologies and need an advice in order to have a fully working Box, got any suggestions?
You forgot to mention what the problem was. I've got a few dozen Asus mobo's running CentOS4/5 with no problems. Perhaps you have some odd network interface that is not supported by a the Xen kernel ?
- KB
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
Victor Padro wrote:
I just been wasting time with an Asus mobo trying to get CentOS/RHEL up and running for my home lab using Xen Technologies and need an advice in order to have a fully working Box, got any suggestions?
You forgot to mention what the problem was. I've got a few dozen Asus mobo's running CentOS4/5 with no problems. Perhaps you have some odd network interface that is not supported by a the Xen kernel ?
- KB
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Hello all,
I got this tiny problem, I bought an Asus m2n-vm hdmi mobo two weeks ago
and it seems not to be fully working under centos >amd64(4.6, 4.9, 5.0, 5.1 or even RHEL 5.0 i386, amd64) I tried to install centos and RHEL using the linux dd and linux noprobe >commands to load driver disk from nVidia guys but it doesn't detect the HD I'm using their diferent versions of the driver RHEL 4_U5, >4_U6 , 5, 5_U1 , then if I change the IDE config in the BIOS from SATA to AHCI, it detects the SATA HD during the install process, but
when it boots up, it tells me to "reboot and select proper boot device or
insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key", but >nothing happens...then I change the BIOS IDE setting back to SATA, and it boots but it gives me a kernel panic saying "could not mount
such file system, not such file or directory", it doesn't load up the
drivers at the linux noprobe way, nor even the forcedeth or the >sata_nv.
I read in ubuntu and fedora forums that they're supported in Ubuntu 7.04,
7.10, 8.04 and Fedora 7, 8, 9, haven't test them yet though, I >want to stick with Centos bcos thats my working enviroment.
What can I do?
Here are my specs: Asus msn-vm hdmi Chipset Nvidia GeForce7050PV/nForce630a AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800 2.5Ghz Dual core 6Gb RAM Kingston 250 HDD SATA2 LG IDE DVD-ROM
I'm trying to use this setup in my home lab to test out Xen technology and
techniques.
forgot to say:
I was able to install RHEL 4 with no install parameters, but I can't
upgrade using the RHEL 5 DVD, still the same issue..no HD detected >in install process.
any suggestions?
thanks in advance.
Victor.
Well that's it...the main trouble is CentOS/RHEL can't see the HD so therefore can't be installed, this is using the SATA/RAID (even factory defaults doesn't work) in BIOS setting but if I change to AHCI, it can be installed but cannot boot up grub or nothing...so I'm kinda lost here.
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Victor Padro vpadro@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
Victor Padro wrote:
I just been wasting time with an Asus mobo trying to get CentOS/RHEL up and running for my home lab using Xen Technologies and need an advice in order to have a fully working Box, got any suggestions?
You forgot to mention what the problem was. I've got a few dozen Asus mobo's running CentOS4/5 with no problems. Perhaps you have some odd network interface that is not supported by a the Xen kernel ?
- KB
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Hello all,
I got this tiny problem, I bought an Asus m2n-vm hdmi mobo two weeks ago
and it seems not to be fully working under centos >amd64(4.6, 4.9, 5.0, 5.1 or even RHEL 5.0 i386, amd64) I tried to install centos and RHEL using the linux dd and linux noprobe >commands to load driver disk from nVidia guys but it doesn't detect the HD I'm using their diferent versions of the driver RHEL 4_U5, >4_U6 , 5, 5_U1 , then if I change the IDE config in the BIOS from SATA to AHCI, it detects the SATA HD during the install process, but
when it boots up, it tells me to "reboot and select proper boot device or
insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key", but >nothing happens...then I change the BIOS IDE setting back to SATA, and it boots but it gives me a kernel panic saying "could not mount
such file system, not such file or directory", it doesn't load up the
drivers at the linux noprobe way, nor even the forcedeth or the >sata_nv.
I read in ubuntu and fedora forums that they're supported in Ubuntu 7.04,
7.10, 8.04 and Fedora 7, 8, 9, haven't test them yet though, I >want to stick with Centos bcos thats my working enviroment.
What can I do?
Here are my specs: Asus msn-vm hdmi Chipset Nvidia GeForce7050PV/nForce630a AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800 2.5Ghz Dual core 6Gb RAM Kingston 250 HDD SATA2 LG IDE DVD-ROM
I'm trying to use this setup in my home lab to test out Xen technology and
techniques.
forgot to say:
I was able to install RHEL 4 with no install parameters, but I can't
upgrade using the RHEL 5 DVD, still the same issue..no HD detected >in install process.
any suggestions?
thanks in advance.
Victor.
Well that's it...the main trouble is CentOS/RHEL can't see the HD so therefore can't be installed, this is using the SATA/RAID (even factory defaults doesn't work) in BIOS setting but if I change to AHCI, it can be installed but cannot boot up grub or nothing...so I'm kinda lost here.
Good news...
I downloaded the RHEL 5.2 iso from Red Hat and it detected the SATA drive without changing anything in the BIOS, so I can discard a BIOS bug from now on, the iso image was corrupted, though so when I set the root password it crashed, checked the dvd and it didn't pass the test. So I guess CentOS 5.0, 5.1 & RHEL 5.0, 5.1, sata_nv drivers doesn't support the nForce 630a chipset, not even the official drivers from nVidia.com.
I thank you all for your suggestions/comments...I guess I'll stick with this asus mobo.
Saludos,
Victor.
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