Aleksandar Milivojevic spake the following on 9/28/2006 11:53 AM: > Quoting rado <rado at rivers-bend.com>: > >> Alexandar, when you get your system up, if you run dmesg...does it show >> where it's picking the drive up? > > Well, it's in the PATA emulation mode, so it picks it up as soon as > kernel probes for IDE drives (no additional modules required). > > Anyhow, I managed to get the initrd image fixed. However, the system > hangs at random places when accessing the drives (after all file systems > are mounted). So I guess CentOS 2.1 and ICH7R are not ment to be (at > least on SuperMicro PDSMi motherboard). It's probably some small bug in > IDE driver -- SATA configured in PATA emulation mode should just work > (worst case is it would work in PIO mode). Unless Intel screwed up > something bad in the chipset. > > On the other hand, CentOS 3.8 runs fine on the same hardware with SATA > in native mode (with AHCI disabled) so it might be an option too. > However, it has some similar symptoms to CentOS 2.1 if I force it to > PATA compatibility mode. > > As a side note, CentOS 4.4 runs with AHCI enabled, and also seems to > show some problems if I force system to PATA compatibility mode. Hmmm... > > --NOTICE: If you are not intended recipient, you are hereby notified > that by reading this message you agreed not to disturb frogs during > mating season. For more info, visit http://www.8-P.ca/ There must be some pressing issues to go to all the trouble of installing 2.1 on new hardware. It is probably closed and in maintenance only state. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!