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

Sun Aug 25 09:41:07 UTC 2013
Steve Brooks <steveb at mcs.st-and.ac.uk>

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)



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Dr Stephen Brooks

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