[CentOS] Tyan S2891 and CentOS

Fri Dec 2 14:09:00 UTC 2005
James Pearson <james-p at moving-picture.com>

I had similar problems with the Tyan B2891 'Transport GT24' - see:

<https://www.redhat.com/archives/nahant-list/2005-November/msg00062.html>

Also make sure that the 'Installed OS' is set to 'Linux' in the BIOS.

James Pearson

On 01/12/05, rik at harddata.com <rik at harddata.com> wrote:
> > Paul Heinlein wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, rik at harddata.com wrote:
> >>
> >>> I am trying to install CentOS to a server that has a Tyan S2891
> >>> motherboard, 2 Opteron 875 Dual Cores and 2GB of RAM.
> >>
> >>
> >> I've got a Tyan S2882-D with two dual-core Opteron 270s running CentOS
> >> 4 just fine -- but it's got the AMD-8111 chipset, not the nVidia CK804.
> >>
> >
> > Since CentOS is based on stable/older code base, and Tyan S2891 is
> > bleeding-edge-new, I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't work so well. My
> > $0.02 ONLY, no 1st hand experience, YMMV, etc.
>
> This is what I figured so I have tested with Fedora Core 4 installs.
>
> Interesting to find that the 2.6.11 install kernel works but the latest
> 2.6.14 kernel has the same symptoms.  I am scratching my head and firing
> up bugzilla.