On Sat, 24 Aug 2013, SilverTip257 wrote: > On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Steve Brooks <steveb at mcs.st-and.ac.uk>wrote: > >> >> Hi Guys, In a bit of a pickle.. Is anyone running the latest "Centos 5.9" >> or earlier version with an Intel X79 based motherboard. I have a server >> which needs the motherboard replacing asap and I have a spare "Sabertooth >> X79". I have a machine with a "Sabertooth X79" motherboard to test on >> which boots up fine on on "Centos 5.9 i386" image from the troubled >> server. However the output from "lspci" (see below) seems far less >> descriptive than you normally see in "Centos 5" or "Centos 6". I am just a >> bit worried that this might imply lack of support. I do not need >> > > I'm not familiar with the Sabertooth X79, so specifics there are better > suited for someone else. > > Though the lack of detail in the newer board might be more apparent if we > had output from both systems to compare. > > >> audio/firewire.. but need the essential to work memory, sata etc. Also I >> thought "i386" installs could not see more than 3 and a bit Gigs of ram? >> The test machine has 32G and meminfo shows >> >> MemTotal: 3574676 kB >> MemFree: 3146556 kB >> > > Are you using a PAE kernel? > If you want access to the additional memory above ~3.5GB you'll need a PAE > kernel. > > CentOS 5 i386 has both non-PAE and PAE kernels. > CentOS 6 i386 only has kernels with PAE support. > > Take a peek at the output from uname to find out what kernel you're running. > > >> >> >> I would really appreciate any advice. Regards Steve Thanks for the reply, I have included the "lspci" output from the new board running "el6". I am sure that the kernel is not PAE but can not check as I am at home and the test machine is turned off at work. I did however run a yum update on the machine so I am wondering if that would notice the memory was sufficient to benefit from a PAE kernel? I will pop into work later to day and post the running kernel. Steve 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 DMI2 (rev 07) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 IIO PCI Express Root Port 1a (rev 07) 00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 IIO PCI Express Root Port 2a (rev 07) 00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 IIO PCI Express Root Port 3a in PCI Express Mode (rev 07) 00:05.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Address Map, VTd_Misc, System Management (rev 07) 00:05.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Control Status and Global Errors (rev 07) 00:05.4 PIC: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 I/O APIC (rev 07) 00:11.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset PCI Express Virtual Root Port (rev 05) 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset MEI Controller #1 (rev 05) 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82579V Gigabit Network Connection (rev 05) 00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 05) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b5) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev b5) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev b5) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev b5) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev b5) 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev b5) 00:1c.7 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset PCI Express Root Port 8 (rev b5) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 05) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev a5) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset LPC Controller (rev 05) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset 6-Port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset SMBus Host Controller (rev 05) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF119 [GeForce GT 610] (rev a1) 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF119 HDMI Audio Controller (rev a1) 03:00.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec Series 7 6G SAS/PCIe 3 (rev 01) 06:00.0 USB controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1042 SuperSpeed USB Host Controller 07:00.0 USB controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1042 SuperSpeed USB Host Controller 08:00.0 USB controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1042 SuperSpeed USB Host Controller 09:00.0 SATA controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller (rev 01) 0a:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6315 Series Firewire Controller (rev 01) 0b:00.0 SATA controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE9128 PCIe SATA 6 Gb/s RAID controller with HyperDuo (rev 11) ff:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 QPI Link 0 (rev 07) ff:08.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 QPI Link Reut 0 (rev 07) ff:08.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 QPI Link Reut 0 (rev 07) ff:09.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 QPI Link 1 (rev 07) ff:09.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 QPI Link Reut 1 (rev 07) ff:09.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 QPI Link Reut 1 (rev 07) ff:0a.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Power Control Unit 0 (rev 07) ff:0a.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Power Control Unit 1 (rev 07) ff:0a.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Power Control Unit 2 (rev 07) ff:0a.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Power Control Unit 3 (rev 07) ff:0b.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Interrupt Control Registers (rev 07) ff:0b.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Semaphore and Scratchpad Configuration Registers (rev 07) ff:0c.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Unicast Register 0 (rev 07) ff:0c.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Unicast Register 0 (rev 07) ff:0c.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Unicast Register 0 (rev 07) ff:0c.6 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller System Address Decoder 0 (rev 07) ff:0c.7 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 System Address Decoder (rev 07) ff:0d.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Unicast Register 0 (rev 07) ff:0d.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Unicast Register 0 (rev 07) ff:0d.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Unicast Register 0 (rev 07) ff:0d.6 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller System Address Decoder 1 (rev 07) ff:0e.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Processor Home Agent (rev 07) ff:0e.1 Performance counters: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Processor Home Agent Performance Monitoring (rev 07) ff:0f.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller Registers (rev 07) ff:0f.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller RAS Registers (rev 07) ff:0f.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller Target Address Decoder 0 (rev 07) ff:0f.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller Target Address Decoder 2 (rev 07) ff:0f.5 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller Target Address Decoder 3 (rev 07) ff:0f.6 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller Target Address Decoder 4 (rev 07) ff:10.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0-3 Thermal Control 0 (rev 07) ff:10.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0-3 Thermal Control 1 (rev 07) ff:10.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller ERROR Registers 0 (rev 07) ff:10.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller ERROR Registers 1 (rev 07) ff:10.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0-3 Thermal Control 2 (rev 07) ff:10.5 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller Channel 0-3 Thermal Control 3 (rev 07) ff:10.6 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller ERROR Registers 2 (rev 07) ff:10.7 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller ERROR Registers 3 (rev 07) ff:11.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 DDRIO (rev 07) ff:13.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 R2PCIe (rev 07) ff:13.1 Performance counters: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Ring to PCI Express Performance Monitor (rev 07) ff:13.4 Performance counters: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 QuickPath Interconnect Agent Ring Registers (rev 07) ff:13.5 Performance counters: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Ring to QuickPath Interconnect Link 0 Performance Monitor (rev 07) ff:13.6 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E5/Core i7 Ring to QuickPath Interconnect Link 1 Performance Monitor (rev 07) -- Dr Stephen Brooks http://www-solar.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/ Solar MHD Theory Group Tel :: 01334 463735 Fax :: 01334 463748 E-mail :: steveb at mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk --------------------------------------- Mathematical Institute North Haugh University of St. Andrews St Andrews, Fife KY16 9SS SCOTLAND 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