[CentOS] Is X79 Motherboard supported by latest "Centos 5.9" version?

Steve Brooks

steveb at mcs.st-and.ac.uk
Sat Aug 24 12:08:00 UTC 2013


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


I would really appreciate any advice.  Regards Steve

e.g. The output from "Sabertooth X79" and "Centos 5.9" gives


00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 3c00 (rev 06)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 3c02 (rev 06)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 3c04 (rev 06)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 3c08 (rev 06)
00:05.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3c28 (rev 06)
00:05.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3c2a (rev 06)
00:05.4 PIC: Intel Corporation Device 3c2c (rev 06)
00:11.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1d3e (rev 05)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Device 1d3a (rev 05)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Device 1503 (rev 05)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Device 1d2d (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device 1d20 (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1d10 (rev b5)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1d12 (rev b5)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1d14 (rev b5)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1d16 (rev b5)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1d18 (rev b5)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1d1a (rev b5)
00:1c.7 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1d1e (rev b5)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Device 1d26 (rev 05)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 1d41 (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Device 1d02 (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Device 1d22 (rev 05)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 104a (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0e08 (rev a1)
06:00.0 USB Controller: Device 1b21:1042
07:00.0 USB Controller: Device 1b21:1042
08:00.0 USB Controller: Device 1b21:1042
09:00.0 SATA controller: Device 1b21:0612 (rev 01)
0a:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. Device 3403 (rev 01)
0b:00.0 SATA controller: Device 1b4b:9130 (rev 11)
ff:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3c80 (rev 06)
ff:08.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3c83 (rev 06)
ff:08.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3c84 (rev 06)
ff:09.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3c90 (rev 06)
ff:09.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3c93 (rev 06)
ff:09.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3c94 (rev 06)
ff:0a.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3cc0 (rev 06)
ff:0a.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3cc1 (rev 06)
ff:0a.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3cc2 (rev 06)
ff:0a.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3cd0 (rev 06)
ff:0b.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3ce0 (rev 06)
ff:0b.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3ce3 (rev 06)
ff:0c.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3ce8 (rev 06)
ff:0c.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3ce8 (rev 06)
ff:0c.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3ce8 (rev 06)
ff:0c.6 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3cf4 (rev 06)
ff:0c.7 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3cf6 (rev 06)
ff:0d.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3ce8 (rev 06)
ff:0d.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3ce8 (rev 06)
ff:0d.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3ce8 (rev 06)
ff:0d.6 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3cf5 (rev 06)
ff:0e.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3ca0 (rev 06)
ff:0e.1 Performance counters: Intel Corporation Device 3c46 (rev 06)
ff:0f.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3ca8 (rev 06)
ff:0f.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3c71 (rev 06)
ff:0f.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3caa (rev 06)
ff:0f.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3cab (rev 06)
ff:0f.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3cac (rev 06)
ff:0f.5 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3cad (rev 06)
ff:0f.6 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3cae (rev 06)
ff:10.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3cb0 (rev 06)
ff:10.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3cb1 (rev 06)
ff:10.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3cb2 (rev 06)
ff:10.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3cb3 (rev 06)
ff:10.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3cb4 (rev 06)
ff:10.5 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3cb5 (rev 06)
ff:10.6 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3cb6 (rev 06)
ff:10.7 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3cb7 (rev 06)
ff:11.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3cb8 (rev 06)
ff:13.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3ce4 (rev 06)
ff:13.1 Performance counters: Intel Corporation Device 3c43 (rev 06)
ff:13.4 Performance counters: Intel Corporation Device 3ce6 (rev 06)
ff:13.5 Performance counters: Intel Corporation Device 3c44 (rev 06)
ff:13.6 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 3c45 (rev 06)




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