Hey folks. I had some problems trying to get gentoo onto a supermicro p3tdle board and was hoping for some suggestions of good quality dual p3 (or higher) server class motherboards. Features that would be nice would be ECC ram support (so the 2G I have now doesn't go to waste) and any nice hardware monitoring systems that are supported under linux.
Also anyone who has the p3tdle (or similar supermicro board) how are your experiences? I'm not sure if my bad luck was caused by a bad motherboard or some *very* strange incompatibilites with the gentoo livecd kernel with this board (yes I tried with noapic :). Symptoms included: - complete system freeze when mke2fs-ing scsi drives on an AIC7xxx board - only able to run IDE drives off the MB without DMA - hard drives off a pci ide card working fine except... - at the end of a raid5 resync when setting up a raid one of the HDs was kicked out with a DMA error - at the end of *that* resync and the end of the install (setting up grub) grub told me that it couldn't mount the partition, and when checking I discovered that the four IDE drives that were set up for software raid (and had been working fine through the rest of the install) had no partitions on them! Not the nicest thing to find at the end of 8 hours of messing with hardware and doing an install :) So MB recommendations for something that gentoo likes would be awsome, as well as any suggestions as to why I was having the strangness noted above would be awsome. Thanks guys! -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- "There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games." -- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
