similar to: Installation problems on old IBM server

I really hope someone has a clue on this one.... :) I've got a 2.2TB array mounted on a 3ware 9500 controller. I installed it last week ensuring that LBA was enabled and using gpt with parted to get the full size available on one array. I also think I chose reiserfs for the array. We then moved ALOT of data to the array. Problem now is that after a reboot LBA doesn't seem to be in

I hope the CentOS people don't mind me cross-posting for their input. I've just done a clean, text-mode minimal WBEL4 install on an IBM Netfinity 4500, essentially the same hardware as an xSeries 340. The install went fine but now the box will boot, run through the initrd init sequence, perform its switchroot then hang here... SELinux: Initializing. SELinux: Starting in permissive mode

Hi, I've got a couple of servers that are running WBEL4 that I would like to upgrade to CentOS4. I noticed that there is a FAQ which explains how to upgrade WBEL3 to CentOS3, but haven't found anything similar for WBEL4. Are the instructions for the WBEL3 upgrade the same for WBEL4? Should I be doing something else instead? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Eric

Hi Everyone, Has anyone had any experience of using the Promise FastTrak SX4000 or SuperTrak SX6000 IDE RAID Controllers under Centos (if it matters I'm using version 4). I've seen it listed on linuxcompatible.org as working but would prefer to find out any first-hand experince before I buy. I'm looking to build a new mini server based on Mini-ITX and have found a great 1U case

Hi all, Does anybody have experience with updating a wbel4 box to centos4? I assume I can follow the basic faq19 instructions, but that's an assumption. Thanks in advance Brad

Hi, I have been able to boot with pxe and load linux rescue, it loads loader and ask me lang, keyboard,load base from nfs, etc... then it ask me about mount chroot or skip, I just choose skip to go to shell. What I want is boot in rescue mode and get a shell directly without having to enter lang, keyboard, nfs ip and dir, skip, etc... once booted on shell I want it automatically run a script

Hi, I was asking about php 5.2 because I would like to use this program with these requirements: http://www.magentocommerce.com/system-requirements This ecommerce store is built with the zend framework and requires php 5.2. Mcrypt is not in the centos mirrors either. I did manage to get this beta ecommerce store installed on php 5.1.6-12 by removing the mycript line in the install xml file and

Hi, I have an IBM xSeries server... and the digium card is sharing IRQ with USB and giving me crackling audio. >>> cat /proc/interrupts >>> >>> It brings up these results: >>> 0: 10566547 IO-APIC-edge timer >>> 1: 9 IO-APIC-edge i8042 >>> 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade >>> 8: 1

Dear all, I'll install Asterisk 1.4 in an IBM xSeries 226 server with four HD's available, using CentOS as the OS. What's the best RAID type recommendation ??? RAID 1 or RAID 5 ??? Regards Alejandro

Hi , I have setup xen on a number of different machines already; however, I couldn''t get xSeries 330 working with Xen. When it boots up, it says "Waiting for device /dev/sda1 .... device not found" and then return a shell prompt. I have looked up this error on the mailing list. I found that the error is potentially caused SCSI driver and it can be resolved this problem by

Hi CentOS users I have here old CentOS 2.1 server on IBM Xseries 336. How to see serial number and machine type? It seems that "dmidecode" is not available for CentOS 2.1 cheers Simon -- XMPP: sjolle at swissjabber.org

I have a CentOS 4.2 system that was set up VERY quickly following the demise of its former life as a CentOS 3 server - you don't want the full story, but it had to be done quickly to get a company up and working following a slight disaster involving an electrician, a portable appliance safety tester and a pulled power cable - anyway, here's where I am at... Everything is running fine but

Hi All, I recently got some IBM Xseries 335 servers 2nd hand, and noticed they don't have any graphics card. Some google searched indicate they only have an uplink port, which you could connect to another (other model) IBM server and use that as the head node. But, I don't have one available. It has 2x GB NIC's, and what looks like a management port, but I can't figure out how to

Hello everyone, I''m totally new to Xen and trying to run it on some platforms (x86, x64) using SLES (that is what I have to use for reasons other than technical). Several machines on which I tried using Xen simply fails to run normally using Xen kernel: either network communication is not functioning at all despite proper configuration (that works on non-Xen kernel), or the kernel

Hi There, Can someone have a look at the specs of this server, found here: http://www-8.ibm.com/servers/eserver/nz/xseries/x366/specs.html and let me know if this is a VT-enabled server? The outline lists this server as having: Intel Xeon Processor MP up to 3.66GHz (single-core) and 3.00GHz (dual-core)/667MHz front-side bus, both support Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology. Thanks Simon

Hi, Is it possible to disable the clear screen when loading syslinux ? Since the IBM BIOS on xSeries systems shows the MAC address of the onboard NICs, I would like to have them on screen when people do a kickstart fro mthe prompt using eg: ksdevice=<MAC address> I personally think that the clear screen is unwanted in most cases since people can add that to the boot message (ctrl-L) if

Well, I'm a recent convert from WBEL. My biggest concern with CentOS is that the community here seems to want to be more than a recompile of RHEL. But WBEL is floundering, what with Katrina and Rita, and there really being only 1 developer behind it, etc. I offer an automated shell script to switch from WBEL4 to CentOS4 (easy, it's hosted on my home DSL line!) It assumes that

ok now i bought an IBM xSeries 206 but my problem is the hard drive can't be detected. I tried surfing for drivers for SATA and i found one for RHEL 3 can this driver works for CentOS 4.2? -- Regards, Mark Quitoriano, CCNA Fan the flame... http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=user/register&r=19441 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Does anyone recommend any particular SAS controller, or should I use an Ultra-320 SCSI controller instead? My machine is an IBM xSeries 306m. It has a SAS controller provided on a daughter card, but it''s not supported in the 2.6.16 kernel, so I''m looking for a separate disk controller card that will work with my existing SAS disks. -- James Holmes Programmer/SysAdmin RTDS

Hi, I got few servers (IBM HS20,HS21 blades, IBM xSeries 3650 & others) connected to a dual fabric san throught Qlogic HBA's (23xx, 24xx). Multipathing is done with device-mapper-multipath. On CentOS 4.x i can scan for new scsi devices without any problems, get them up with multipathing & use them without any problems. However, after i started installing CentOS 5.1 (did not