[CentOS] prepare for centos on compaq dl380 G1
John Hinton
webmaster at ew3d.com
Fri Oct 28 21:25:44 UTC 2005
Grant McChesney wrote:
> On 10/28/05, *Robert* <roberth at abbacomm.net
> <mailto:roberth at abbacomm.net>> wrote:
>
> greetings
>
> i have a few dual P3 Compaq 1850R units and use compaq smartstart
> 5.5 on
> them before a CentOS 4 load
>
> i have acquired some dual P3 Compaq DL380 G1 i.e. Generation 1
> units and am
> wondering which specific smartstart download i should be using for
> them from
> this URL below
>
> h18004.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/subscription/ssdownloads.asp
> <http://h18004.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/subscription/ssdownloads.asp>
>
> would someone please share their experience on this so i dont have
> to waste
> time and bandwidth?
>
> thank you and kind regards
>
>
>
> Robert:
>
> The latest SmartStart (7.40) should work with the DL380 G1. The
> latest firmware update cd (7.40) should work on it as well. I must
> admit I haven't tried since SmartStart 7.10 a little while ago. I
> know for sure the latest firmware update cd will _NOT_ work on the
> 1850R. The NIC is not supported and causes it to hang on startup.
> Good luck.
>
> Grant
Hmmm... I had this firmware update issue on a dual 550 1850R. The
machine would boot to the single kernel, but not to the smp kernel. I
added/edited the following to the kernel options for the smp kernel
ro root=LABEL=/ apm=off noapic rhgb quiet
I was seeing some apic errors on boot up from the beginning and under
both kernels, which is why I added that. But I really think the issue
was the apm. It might make sense that the updated apm is adding/changing
a ?wake on lan? or some such which the kernel can't handle? But, anyway,
since adding those entries, it has booted perfectly every time. I notice
CentOS configured the NIC card as eth0 and the onboard NIC as eth1 (this
seems a common occurance at least to me.. sort of random.. maybe
whichever driver it finds first?). But the onboard NIC is working fine
on this machine. And I have the added benefit of not seeing any errors
going by during bootup.
Best,
John Hinton
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