Re: [CentOS] Re: I need hardware advice here
On Tuesday 03 June 2008 16:04:54 Scott Silva wrote: on 6-3-2008 2:22 AM Peter Arremann spake the following: On Tuesday 03 June 2008 02:07:12 am Christopher Chan wrote: Victor Padro wrote: Hello all, I just been wasting time with an Asus mobo trying to get CentOS/RHEL up and running for my home lab using Xen Technologies and need an advice in order to have a fully working Box, got any suggestions? Use acpi=off or noapic to deal with broken Asus bioses. Next time, buy MSI or A-bit. Doesn't MSI require you to have windows for bios updates? Peter. Most boards I have had usually had a floppy image available on the website for bioses. Only live update is the windows only software. Or you can sometimes boot with the m/board driver disk to flash the bios, putting the new bios file on a floppy or USB pendrive.. john -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: I need hardware advice here
Or you can sometimes boot with the m/board driver disk to flash the bios, putting the new bios file on a floppy or USB pendrive.. john Already did that, flashed it to the last version, and flashed it backwards, no possitive results neither way, nevertheless I was able to install RHEL 5.2 i386, x86_64 without any issue. The AHCI or even SATA worked ok. -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Thanks, Victor ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Re: I need hardware advice here
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Silva Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 8:12 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Re: I need hardware advice here on 6-4-2008 8:06 AM Victor Padro spake the following: Or you can sometimes boot with the m/board driver disk to flash the bios, putting the new bios file on a floppy or USB pendrive.. john Already did that, flashed it to the last version, and flashed it backwards, no possitive results neither way, nevertheless I was able to install RHEL 5.2 i386, x86_64 without any issue. The AHCI or even SATA worked ok. Well CentOS 5.2 should be out in a couple of weeks. I'm sure the build servers are humming away right now. I had a similar issue when trying our Fedora 9 on my NEW Gigabyte mboard. It would install, but not boot. Turned out Grub was writing it as /dev/hda during install, but on reboot, it was /dev/sda. I fixed it by boot of the F9 dvd, into rescue mode, chrooting, and re-running grub install and specified sda. Perhaps this is your issue. (I haven't followed the whole thread...) Seems to be happening on just very recent motherboards, based on the little bit of Googling I did. http://www.groupsrv.com/linux/post-866681.html HTH, Dennis ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: I need hardware advice here
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Dennis McLeod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Silva Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 8:12 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Re: I need hardware advice here on 6-4-2008 8:06 AM Victor Padro spake the following: Or you can sometimes boot with the m/board driver disk to flash the bios, putting the new bios file on a floppy or USB pendrive.. john Already did that, flashed it to the last version, and flashed it backwards, no possitive results neither way, nevertheless I was able to install RHEL 5.2 i386, x86_64 without any issue. The AHCI or even SATA worked ok. Well CentOS 5.2 should be out in a couple of weeks. I'm sure the build servers are humming away right now. I had a similar issue when trying our Fedora 9 on my NEW Gigabyte mboard. It would install, but not boot. Turned out Grub was writing it as /dev/hda during install, but on reboot, it was /dev/sda. I fixed it by boot of the F9 dvd, into rescue mode, chrooting, and re-running grub install and specified sda. Perhaps this is your issue. (I haven't followed the whole thread...) Seems to be happening on just very recent motherboards, based on the little bit of Googling I did. http://www.groupsrv.com/linux/post-866681.html HTH, Dennis ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Actually I did that but there was no solution like you said: # chroot /mnt/sysimage # grub-install /dev/sda I even tried: # grub-install /dev/sda2 # grub-install /dev/hda but there was no possitive result and couldn't boot at all. I tried installing FC9 but there was no sucess at all. I guess I'll wait until CentOS 5.2 its released, because my subscription to Red Hat will finish sometime in September, mean while I'll test Xen under RHEL 5.2. Thank you all. Victor. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: I need hardware advice here
On Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:07 PM, Victor Padro wrote: Actually I did that but there was no solution like you said: # chroot /mnt/sysimage # grub-install /dev/sda I even tried: # grub-install /dev/sda2 # grub-install /dev/hda but there was no possitive result and couldn't boot at all. I tried installing FC9 but there was no sucess at all. I guess I'll wait until CentOS 5.2 its released, because my subscription to Red Hat will finish sometime in September, mean while I'll test Xen under RHEL 5.2. Since you installed using AHCI, but then changed to SATA (hence the kernel panic), you probably need to rebuild the initrd image (see mkinitrd) from rescue mode. Steve ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: I need hardware advice here
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:21 AM, S.Tindall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:07 PM, Victor Padro wrote: Actually I did that but there was no solution like you said: # chroot /mnt/sysimage # grub-install /dev/sda I even tried: # grub-install /dev/sda2 # grub-install /dev/hda but there was no possitive result and couldn't boot at all. I tried installing FC9 but there was no sucess at all. I guess I'll wait until CentOS 5.2 its released, because my subscription to Red Hat will finish sometime in September, mean while I'll test Xen under RHEL 5.2. Since you installed using AHCI, but then changed to SATA (hence the kernel panic), you probably need to rebuild the initrd image (see mkinitrd) from rescue mode. Steve How can I rebuild the initrd image if it doesn't see the HD? I tried that...I having the conclusion that perhaps it's the sata_nv and the AHCI drivers provided in CentOS/RHEL 5, 5.1 that they're not well compiled or something because I did install using RHEL 4. that's kinda odd to me... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: I need hardware advice here
On Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:31 PM, Victor Padro wrote: On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 11:21 AM, S.Tindall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:07 PM, Victor Padro wrote: Actually I did that but there was no solution like you said: # chroot /mnt/sysimage # grub-install /dev/sda I even tried: # grub-install /dev/sda2 # grub-install /dev/hda but there was no possitive result and couldn't boot at all. I tried installing FC9 but there was no sucess at all. I guess I'll wait until CentOS 5.2 its released, because my subscription to Red Hat will finish sometime in September, mean while I'll test Xen under RHEL 5.2. Since you installed using AHCI, but then changed to SATA (hence the kernel panic), you probably need to rebuild the initrd image (see mkinitrd) from rescue mode. Steve How can I rebuild the initrd image if it doesn't see the HD? I tried that...I having the conclusion that perhaps it's the sata_nv and the AHCI drivers provided in CentOS/RHEL 5, 5.1 that they're not well compiled or something because I did install using RHEL 4. that's kinda odd to me... My misunderstanding. I thought you were implying that you could successfully mount in rescue mode. Steve ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
