On Mon, 26 Aug 2013, Michael Duvall 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 > 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 > > Steve, > > You need to run a PAE 32-bit kernel in order to see more than 3.1 GB. > I wouldn't be too concerned about the lspci output yet. Thanks for the help Michael, I suppose if I test the machine as much as I can before putting it in service, fingers crossed! Steve