[CentOS] Supermicro & Boot Failures with DVD Centos 6.2

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On 04/20/13 20:33, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Gregory P. Ennis <PoMec at pomec.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>>> Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
>>>>>> Eve.8ryone,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have had a SuperMicro machine running Centos 5.8 that had
>>>>>> been progressively updated with yum-cron from a 5.0 CD
>>>>>> install.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I upgraded the SuperMicro with more memory, switched out
>>>>>> the CD with a DVD and tried to boot to the Centos x64 6.2
>>>>>> dvd.  My plan was to test the memory before I added the
>>>>>> hard drives, but I could not I could not get the machine to
>>>>>> boot from the disc.  I also tried some Fedora
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> Nicolas,
>
> We have tried with 6.3 using a DVD that failed, and 6.3 is what
> worked with the usb stick.   I will be downloading 6.4 this weekend
> and should be able to try 6.4 next.

Ok. Let me start by saying we have some honkin' hot servers (48 & 64 
cores), and they'd had *some* problems, but when we went from 5.x to 
6.x, we started seeing more problems... as in a userspace, 
computation-*very*-intense multithreaded program able to crash the whole 
box, and send it back to the OEM (Penguin), and they decide to replace 
the m/b.

Given that, I'm suspecting you've got a similar problem. Why on install, 
I don't know, but I'm wondering about the board.

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