bruce
2009-Jan-28 03:29 UTC
[CentOS] getting Centos on "used" rackable systems 1U with dualOpteron 248 HE
hi robert... what issues are you having? what params are you using as of now... -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org]On Behalf Of RobertH Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 7:04 PM To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: [CentOS] getting Centos on "used" rackable systems 1U with dualOpteron 248 HE hi there. anyone have any tips on params to pass to the kernel etc in order to install Centos4 or Centos5 32bit or 64 bit installed on this unit i can get it close to install, yet no cigar. it is a tyan MB and ill try to get more info if needed... for this case, please assume for now that the hardware itself is not "bad" thanks in advance... - rh Rackable Systems Dual Opteron 2.0 GHz 1U Half-Depth Server General Features: No Server Operating System Dual AMD Opteron 246 HE (OSK246CMP5AU) 2.0 GHz processors 4 GB DDR RAM 120 GB IDE hard drive ATI Rage XL integrated video Broadcom BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet Motherboard Features: AMD-8111 chipset One (1) PCI-X riser slot Eight (8) DDR DIMM sockets Front I/O Ports: Two (2) PS/2 ports One (1) 15-pin VGA port One (1) 9-pin serial port Two (2) USB ports Two (2) RJ-45 Ethernet jacks Case Features: 1U half-depth server chassis One (1) 3.5-inch drive bay Four rear cooling fans 400-watt power supply _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
hrbac.conf at seznam.cz (David Hrbác
2009-Jan-28 08:07 UTC
[CentOS] getting Centos on "used" rackable systems 1U withdualOpteron 248 HE
RobertH napsal(a):> ummmm basically with centos 4 or 5 64 bit, it is freezing when i get to the > partitioning and want to continue forward or after partitioning and moving > towards the ummmmm place where one chooses software.Hi, are those disks totally empty or there are some partitions? Try to look at them with fdisk. BTW sometimes Anaconda fails on disks with partitions. Deleting partitions helps before install, sometimes I have to "create a new empty DOS partition table" with fdisk. Regards, David
John R Pierce
2009-Jan-28 08:22 UTC
[CentOS] getting Centos on "used" rackable systems 1U withdualOpteron 248 HE
David Hrb?c wrote:> are those disks totally empty or there are some partitions? Try to look > at them with fdisk. BTW sometimes Anaconda fails on disks with > partitions. Deleting partitions helps before install, sometimes I have > to "create a new empty DOS partition table" with fdiskor my old standby, boot the centos cd to single user mode, and execute dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1024 count=1024 this zeros the first megabyte of the disk, wiping all traces of partition tables. power cycle to clear the state of -everything-, *then* boot the installer...
RobertH
2009-Jan-28 17:53 UTC
[CentOS] getting Centos on "used" rackable systems 1U withdualOpteron 248 HE
> Hi, > are those disks totally empty or there are some partitions? > Try to look at them with fdisk. BTW sometimes Anaconda fails > on disks with partitions. Deleting partitions helps before > install, sometimes I have to "create a new empty DOS > partition table" with fdisk. > Regards, > Davidthank you for all that responded. the disk appeared wiped and without partitions..., yet it wasnt and even though it would allow me to partition it, the software install did not want to play ball with a disk that did not have a partitiion removed even though you could not see it so to speak. the machines are screamerssssssssssss... thanks again -rh
RobertH
2009-Jan-29 03:03 UTC
[CentOS] getting Centos on "used" rackable systems 1U with dual Opteron 248 HE
hi there. anyone have any tips on params to pass to the kernel etc in order to install Centos4 or Centos5 32bit or 64 bit installed on this unit i can get it close to install, yet no cigar. it is a tyan MB and ill try to get more info if needed... for this case, please assume for now that the hardware itself is not "bad" thanks in advance... - rh Rackable Systems Dual Opteron 2.0 GHz 1U Half-Depth Server General Features: No Server Operating System Dual AMD Opteron 246 HE (OSK246CMP5AU) 2.0 GHz processors 4 GB DDR RAM 120 GB IDE hard drive ATI Rage XL integrated video Broadcom BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet Motherboard Features: AMD-8111 chipset One (1) PCI-X riser slot Eight (8) DDR DIMM sockets Front I/O Ports: Two (2) PS/2 ports One (1) 15-pin VGA port One (1) 9-pin serial port Two (2) USB ports Two (2) RJ-45 Ethernet jacks Case Features: 1U half-depth server chassis One (1) 3.5-inch drive bay Four rear cooling fans 400-watt power supply
RobertH
2009-Jan-29 06:23 UTC
[CentOS] getting Centos on "used" rackable systems 1U withdualOpteron 248 HE
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] getting Centos on "used" rackable > systems 1U withdualOpteron 248 HE > > hi robert... > > what issues are you having? what params are you using as of now... > > >ummmm basically with centos 4 or 5 64 bit, it is freezing when i get to the partitioning and want to continue forward or after partitioning and moving towards the ummmmm place where one chooses software. 4.7 seems to work better than 5.2 would not work in graphical install mode. hangs so i went to linux text ...and i am not using any kernel params *yet* other than one time i tried nousb nousbstorage skipddc just for the heck of it, which worked on old compaq DL380 servers hehehehe ;-) what i will try next is to turn off power mgmt and apic or whatever i was wondering if others had bought any of these boxes and played with them yet. they are pretty cheap and i have been looking for some cheap rackmount boxes that i can throw large ata ide drives in to do some things with - rh
David Ross
2009-Jan-29 16:03 UTC
[CentOS] getting Centos on "used" rackable systems 1U with dual Opteron 248 HE
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org]On Behalf Of RobertH Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 10:04 PM To: 'CentOS mailing list' Subject: [CentOS] getting Centos on "used" rackable systems 1U with dual Opteron 248 HE hi there. anyone have any tips on params to pass to the kernel etc in order to install Centos4 or Centos5 32bit or 64 bit installed on this unit [snip] for this case, please assume for now that the hardware itself is not "bad" thanks in advance... [david] Have you checked install logs for error messages? During install it is displayed on one of the virtual consoles. Not sure which. One of the Install User Guides documents the purpose of each one used and the key combinations [david] needed to switch between them. I think it's ALT+(something)+Fn(n=1...). You can also boot from the live CD to run diagnostics. David Ross - rh Rackable Systems Dual Opteron 2.0 GHz 1U Half-Depth Server General Features: No Server Operating System Dual AMD Opteron 246 HE (OSK246CMP5AU) 2.0 GHz processors 4 GB DDR RAM 120 GB IDE hard drive ATI Rage XL integrated video Broadcom BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet Motherboard Features: AMD-8111 chipset One (1) PCI-X riser slot Eight (8) DDR DIMM sockets Front I/O Ports: Two (2) PS/2 ports One (1) 15-pin VGA port One (1) 9-pin serial port Two (2) USB ports Two (2) RJ-45 Ethernet jacks Case Features: 1U half-depth server chassis One (1) 3.5-inch drive bay Four rear cooling fans 400-watt power supply _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________ No viruses found in this incoming message Scanned by iolo AntiVirus 1.5.6.4 http://www.iolo.com _______________________________________ No viruses found in this outgoing message Scanned by iolo AntiVirus 1.5.6.4 http://www.iolo.com