from my googling around, it doesn't look there is a single motherboard that supports core 2 duo and works without patches or tweaks. is that true? the main thing we want is: core 2 duo support 4g of 800mhz (or better) ram sata gig ether with pxe boot we can live without pata or usb for a while. we've tried intel 965 and asus p5b based boards with various levels of ease of install, but all required some kind of driver update, which just isn't acceptable to us. well, i guess it could be acceptable if it could be built in to a pxe boot setup, but so far i haven't found any docs to even let me understand how hard/easy that might be. does v5 support any of these boards better?
Yeah, it doesn't work and they refuse to patch the kernel in CentOS 4 to make it work; so it looks like everyone will be waiting until march. -Drew -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Joe Pruett Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 11:08 AM To: centos at centos.org Subject: [CentOS] core 2 duo motherboards and centos 4 from my googling around, it doesn't look there is a single motherboard that supports core 2 duo and works without patches or tweaks. is that true? the main thing we want is: core 2 duo support 4g of 800mhz (or better) ram sata gig ether with pxe boot we can live without pata or usb for a while. we've tried intel 965 and asus p5b based boards with various levels of ease of install, but all required some kind of driver update, which just isn't acceptable to us. well, i guess it could be acceptable if it could be built in to a pxe boot setup, but so far i haven't found any docs to even let me understand how hard/easy that might be. does v5 support any of these boards better? _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 08:07:44AM -0800, Joe Pruett wrote:> from my googling around, it doesn't look there is a single motherboard > that supports core 2 duo and works without patches or tweaks. is that > true? the main thing we want is: > > core 2 duo support > 4g of 800mhz (or better) ram > sata > gig ether with pxe boot > > we can live without pata or usb for a while. > > we've tried intel 965 and asus p5b based boards with various levels of > ease of install, but all required some kind of driver update, which just > isn't acceptable to us. well, i guess it could be acceptable if it could > be built in to a pxe boot setup, but so far i haven't found any docs to > even let me understand how hard/easy that might be. > > does v5 support any of these boards better?Humm, what about Athlon X2 motherboards ? How well are they supported ? []s - -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFsPUFpdyWzQ5b5ckRAgDPAJ93NLnLoBmLm/vcgFOHIdc8YSbHUwCbB0SQ uTx24PTnXdOp9NJiyxGELmo=yMxO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> from my googling around, it doesn't look there is a single motherboard > that supports core 2 duo and works without patches or tweaks. is that > true? the main thing we want is: > > core 2 duo support > 4g of 800mhz (or better) ram > sata > gig ether with pxe boot >My Asus P5B "Deluxe" worked out of the box with Centos 4.4. I used a SATA CDROM to load Centos 4.4 x86_64. The only "tweak" I did was load the nvidia drivers for the graphics card (the built in linux drivers work but are not very good, but that's true on all nvidias irrespective of motherboard). The skge driver for nic1 (the second one) works great. PATA will have to wait until RHEL (Centos) 5 comes along and I left the JMicron unused because there are no drivers for it yet. USB doesn't have any problem with the antique scanner we have plugged into it or with newer digital cameras and printers. Scilab and R both run very well. Scilab does not seem to benefit from the duo core, but R runs much faster. VMserver runs 32 bit windows very nicely. The box runs 100M ether with the linux skge driver and I do not run pxe boot so I do not know if Centos 4 will provide what you need. Although the linux skge driver purports to be capable of Gig ether, you may have to use the latest from Marvell's web site to actually get to a gig. Trying to use both NIC's at the same time produced erratic results with any combination of drivers. Microsoft's (pardon the expression) optical mouse, a very overpriced nvidia graphics card, 4 SATA's, SATA DVD, raid all seem happy. Overclocking the E6600 worked with the Corsair 800Mz memory, locked up randomly under load with slower memory. 4GB is all the P5B Deluxe will take. The lack of a proper driver for sensors ( I heard that an older driver sort of works), no PATA support, and the not-really-dual nic problem implies that installing RHEL4 or Centos4 is a short term measure before upgrading to the RHEL5 or Centos5 releases this spring. I have heard that these issues are all resolved in the RHEL5 beta, but have not actually tried the beta myself. Be forewarned, if you run XP on top of the VMware server, you may or may not have a license (validation) issue when you upgrade to VMware on RHEL5 (Centos5) in the spring if it sees a different platform. The P5B 'Lux performs well for math and engineering stuff, hasn't failed or hicupped yet despite a period of shaky building power. If you can get the pxe boot to work, it should roll out pretty well for workstations if that is your intended use. Hope that helps you a little.
Joe Pruett wrote:> isn't acceptable to us. well, i guess it could be acceptable if it could > be built in to a pxe boot setup, but so far i haven't found any docs to > even let me understand how hard/easy that might be.Just make a new kernel and initrd image with the patches and drivers you need, and ditto on the installed RPMs. I have done it for CD-ROM installs when I needed new drivers, the procedure is the same with PXE. I just googled back then, but don't have to docs for it here.> does v5 support any of these boards better?Yes, the 2.6.18 kernel got support new hardware. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: morten at mortent.org //IM: Cartoon at jabber.no morten.torstensen at gmail.com And if it turns out that there is a God, I don't believe that he is evil. The worst that can be said is that he's an underachiever.