CentOS - Dec 2006 - CentOS 4 and Intel D965 motherboards

Does anyone have information on support for Intel D965-based motherboards for 
CentOS 4 (i386)?

I've got a DG965RYCK that fails a CentOS 4.4 install early on (problems 
scanning the PCI bus).  Fedora Core 6 installs just fine.

If anyone has any information, or magic boot parameters to try, please let me 
know.  ("Works for me" is OK too).

Thanks much.

Dave Thompson
UW-Madison

David Thompson wrote:
> Does anyone have information on support for Intel D965-based motherboards
for
> CentOS 4 (i386)?
> 
> I've got a DG965RYCK that fails a CentOS 4.4 install early on (problems
> scanning the PCI bus).  Fedora Core 6 installs just fine.
> 
> If anyone has any information, or magic boot parameters to try, please let
me
> know.  ("Works for me" is OK too).
If it's not too late, return the motherboard, get something else.

My personal experience with Intel's desktop motherboards is that they
work most of the time for most of the people.  Which is not enough for
me.  If you browse the list's archives, you'll find that particular
models of Intel motherboards worked fine for many people on the list.
However, that can't be said for the whole line of Intel's motherboards
in general.  I currently have one Intel motherboard on my desk that
works just fine with CentOS 4.4 (D845GNT).  There is couple of BIOS bugs
when selecting boot device, but with some trial and error I got it to
boot from CD-ROM so I could install OS onto it.  Some time ago I also
had another Intel's motherboard (D865PERL) that worked extremely
unstable depending on combination of additional PCI cards (it
particularly didn't like PCI cards made by Intel).

I just try to avoid them.

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You can try working with the various kernel options nommconf, apci=off,
all-generic-ide I've gotten it to work with some very small level of
success in the past.

-Drew
 

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Subject: [CentOS] CentOS 4 and Intel D965 motherboards

Does anyone have information on support for Intel D965-based
motherboards for CentOS 4 (i386)?

I've got a DG965RYCK that fails a CentOS 4.4 install early on (problems
scanning the PCI bus).  Fedora Core 6 installs just fine.

If anyone has any information, or magic boot parameters to try, please
let me know.  ("Works for me" is OK too).

Thanks much.

Dave Thompson
UW-Madison


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Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
>
>If it's not too late, return the motherboard, get something else.
>
>My personal experience with Intel's desktop motherboards is that they
>work most of the time for most of the people.  Which is not enough for
>me.  If you browse the list's archives, you'll find that particular
>models of Intel motherboards worked fine for many people on the list.
>However, that can't be said for the whole line of Intel's
motherboards
>in general.  I currently have one Intel motherboard on my desk that
>works just fine with CentOS 4.4 (D845GNT).  There is couple of BIOS bugs
>when selecting boot device, but with some trial and error I got it to
>boot from CD-ROM so I could install OS onto it.  Some time ago I also
>had another Intel's motherboard (D865PERL) that worked extremely
>unstable depending on combination of additional PCI cards (it
>particularly didn't like PCI cards made by Intel).
Thanks for the input.  We have several hundred Intel motherboards in various
deployments, of many different Intel northbridge generations: 815, 845, 865,
915, and 945.  For the most part, they've worked very well for us.

Our vendor is starting to push us to migrate to the 965-based generation; thus
our current evaluation (and question(s)).

Cheers,

Dave

> If it's not too late, return the motherboard, get something else.
>
> My personal experience with Intel's desktop motherboards is that they
> work most of the time for most of the people.  
thats been the exact opposite of my experiences with Intel branded 
motherboards.   They've been consistently well engineered, and well 
built, have very good aftermarket support (BIOS upgrades and drivers are 
still available for nearly every board they've ever made, and they are 
MUCH better documented than the typical taiwan stuff).    Intel has had 
a few funky chipsets that NO motherboards could fix (anything that used 
RDRAM, and worse, the chipsets that used RD->SDRAM bridges like the 
i810), but otherwise I've found them very compatible.   I do try and 
avoid the chipsets with onboard graphics.

I've never seen ANY documentation like 
ftp://download.intel.com/design/motherbd/lt/D5601702US.pdf (for the 
DP965LT, a current mainstream performance board I'd strongly consider 
using for a Core 2 Duo desktop) from any taiwan board maker.   Note they 
actually give power specifications for the board, thermal design 
guidelines, etc.     Detailed errata in 
ftp://download.intel.com/design/motherbd/lt/D6333603US.pdf  (ever seen 
errata on a taiwan board?  muahaahahahaha, right!)

RHEL/CentOS 4 is getting a bit long in the tooth, and support for the 
latest hardware is somewhat lagging, this can be an issue with any new 
system.