[CentOS] CentOS 4.4 Strange hang on a poweredge 2900.

Wed Dec 27 14:00:35 UTC 2006
Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu>

On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 at 6:10pm, Peter Serwe wrote

> Brent wrote:
>> first I would try the Nic Card. If for some reason that doesn't work I it
>> wouldn't hurt to try the 64 bit version if the nic card doesn' work.
>> 
>> I believe there is physical limit of 4 gigs on a 32 bit system. So you may
>> want to consider going 64 anyways for this server.
>> 
>> If none of this fixes it you got a bad MB or CPU and time for Dell to
>> replace it.
>> 
> At this point, I've tried swapping the NIC's, it doesn't seem to change the 
> behavior.
>
> I'm currently downloading the iso images for 4.4-ia64 just to see if that 
> helps, but I'm
> not necessarily getting a warm and fuzzy that's going to do anything for me.

You're downloading the wrong image.  You want x86_64.  ia64 is for the 
Itanic.

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University