On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 00:01 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 21:01 -0700, Sean O'Connell wrote: > > I do see the 3Ware BIOS at boot. Trouble is once the box has booted, no > > love. > > Oh, so you _are_ seeing the 3Ware BIOS. > > If you go into the "Boot" portion of the Phoenix ServerBIOS, you should > also see the 3Ware card as a boot option under disks (and can move > around the order) -- correct? > > So now it looks like it might be the Linux kernel. > > > See above. Card is seen during POST. > > Yeppers. No love. > > Hmmm, it's a "long shot," but you could try the nForce package from > nVidia. I seriously doubt it will do a thing, because the package is > pretty much just peripheral support (ATA, NIC, audio etc...), GPL > components that are already in stock kernel 2.4.23+/2.6.5+ (with > exception of the older/alternative OSS audio and older NIC drivers). > > The APIC, I2C, PCI, etc... issues are not what those packages address. > I.e., when most people say "a chipset is not supported by Linux," they > are talking about the peripheral components in the chipset, not the core > APIC, I2C, PCI, etc... > > BTW, I saw a note on the nVidia CK04 (nVidia Pro 2200) chipset in Red > Hat Bugzilla, but it seemed unrelated. It was also for CentOS 3, not > CentOS 4. No searches anywhere are turning up issues with 3Ware cards > on the S2895 mainboard. Hmmm... I need to see what version of the BIOS is on this thing. When in doubt, flash the BIOS. http://www.tyan.com/support/html/b_s2895.html One of the items in the listing is.. * Fixed some PCI-X device Option ROM does not scan or * initialize correctly As for seeing the 3ware card under the boot order list, there are a couple of entries that might be the 3Ware card (it's not spelled out explicitly), and I don't recall the exact notation. One might be the PXE nic and the other could be the 3Ware card. -- Sean O'Connell Office of Engineering Computing oconnell at soe.ucsd.edu Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD 858.534.9716 (49716)