Hi
we've been runing SUSE 9.1 pro on a dual opteron HP proliant server (6Gb ram, 3 disk raid) but when we try to install 9.2 it fails misserable. No matter what i select (safe mode, no acpi, normal whatever) i get the same result, the server deadlocks with no video in the end of the kernal load, before showing the language select dialog(no way to talk to the server except for powercycling...)
I really can't se why previously suported hardware suddenly isn't functional?
Does enyone have any ideas upon how to get the 9.2 version installed?!
Is it any use to try the enterprise server version or should we just switch back to ReadHat?
(must have a stable & functional server within a week or so and the .local domain issue of 9.1 makes it unusable)
Best regards
// Robert
An iso imaqe is instructions for what goes on your CD, like the recipe for a cake. If you put the receipe into the oven, you get burned paper. You have to follow the instructions on the receipe and put the result into the oven.
What you are doing probably makes an iso image of the iso image and so puts the iso image on the CD.
There is an option in K3B for burning iso images, poke around the menus to find it.
Irwin Hutchinson
ih(a)albatrosus.com
Senior Quality Technician,
AlbatrosUS Corp.,
20 Corporate Circle,
Albany 12203 NY
Irwin Hutchinson
ih(a)albatrosus.com
Senior Quality Technician,
AlbatrosUS Corp.,
20 Corporate Circle,
Albany 12203 NY
Having done a fresh install of 9.2 (after having had to disbale USB in
the bios), I now cannot get xinetd to start either using the runlevel
editor or from the command line.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
- Richard.
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http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
On Friday, February 11, 2005 10:50 AM Torsten Foertsch wrote:
> I am planning to buy a new computer. I thought of:
>
> - Mainboard ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe
> - CPU Athlon64 3500+ (Winchester)
> - RAM 2048MB
>
> The mainboard is a PCI express one. Will it work with suse 9.2?
I've just put together the exact same spec. It works like a dream
with 9.2.
>
> Now I am looking for a SATA RAID controller. I have heard much
positive of
> 3ware escalade 8506. But it is a PCI (without express) card. Will it
work
> with the board?
There are 8 on-board SATA connectors, including RAID. The RAID
controller is recognised by the kernel, but my two SATA drives are
non-RAID (so far), so I can't say how good its RAID implementation is.
If I were you, I'd hang onto my cash until you've tested the onboard
RAID. If you find you need a full-blown RAID card, there are three
normal PCI slots on the mobo, so you shouldn't have any problems
getting it to work.
> I have got an old AVMB1 PCI ISDN card. Will it work with the new
> board?
I don't see why not. I'm using all three PCI slots (SCSI card, audio
and TV) with no compatibility problems.
> What graphics card do you recommend? 3d is nice to have but not
> necessary.
I went for a Radeon (ASUS EAX800XT PCI-Express), passing up the
opportunity to make use of SLI because I've had hardware failures with
identical symptoms from three different generations of GeForce cards.
The first time I put down to bad luck and replaced the board. The
second time it failed inside the warranty period and was replaced with
the next generation. The third time was the last straw.
> Good linux compatibility is more important. It should support old VGA
and LCD
> displays.
I'm using the ATI proprietary driver, but if you don't need
accelerated 3D, you can get by with the xorg's radeon driver. Note
that I had to upgrade to xorg-x11-6.8.2rc3-2.1.x86_64 and its
friends. The version on the 9.2 DVD wouldn't work with the ATI
driver. I've used it with a CRT from VGA resolution up to
1920x1440@75 and with two LCDs 1280x1024 and 1920x1200 (nice) using
both VGA and DVI ports. I had no problems with any set-up.
> I am trying to build a system with good disk- and
network-IO-performance and
> CPU performance.
I'm pleased with all of them so far (even without switching to stripy
RAID).
I get the feeling that the components are nicely balanced, so that
no one component is causing a bottleneck. All previous PCs I've used
have tended towards becoming either CPU or disk bound, but with 2Gb RAM,
there is plenty of scope for buffering to let the CPU ease the disk
burden.
For a system containing such new components, I'm amazed I've not had
any real headaches.
Finally, to give some idea of the performance:
CPU: a raytracing landscape generator I'm writing (not 3D-accelerated,
so very CPU intensive) used to take around 20s per frame on my 512Mb
Athlon 2200+ ASUS V8X system. The same scene now takes a shade over 2
seconds per frame.
Memory: AFAIR, running memtest reported a memory bandwidth of around
2Gb/s.
Disk: It's hard to quantify disk performance because I've not come
close to filling the memory yet so there's lots of cached data lying
around. All I can really say is that installing a whole bunch of RPMs
is a *lot* quicker than my old system (using the same SATA drives)
Summary: go for it.
HTH
Phil
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Hi,
Even if my current BIOS option "Cool&Quiet" is on,
SuSE 9.2 kernel-default-2.6.8-24.11 reports otherwise:
powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.00.09b)
powernow-k8: BIOS error - no PSB
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
I'm thinking of updating my BIOS which is currently:
str1: "American Megatrends Inc."
str2: "1001.005"
str3: "02/09/2004"
str1: "ASUSTeK Computer Inc."
str2: "K8VSEDX"
str3: "Rev 1.xx"
str4: "MB-1234567890"
to something more recent, on the ASUS site I found:
File Type BIOS
File Name K8vsedx5.zip
File Size 422669 bytes Version 1005
Date 2004/12/22
Download 5501
Has anyone used this BIOS version, and does Cool & Quiet work
on this motherboard with a recent enough BIOS?
My AMD64 machine has no floppy, I assume I have to burn a CD or play
with an USB key boot, any URL or steps to do so?
Thanks in advance,
Laurent
Hello Matt
I did a test by modifying the parameters of the port range in the
config.opts.
With the values given by "lspci -vv" (1) for the card bus, this is
sure, the PCMCIA
cards don't work. With the values given by WinXP (2) , they work. In
details :
(1) with lspci -vv :
I/O window 0: 0000c000-0000c7ff
I/O window 1: 0000c800-0000cfff
.......
I/O window 0: 0000b000-0000b7ff
I/O window 1: 0000b800-0000bfff
These values put in the config.opts file :
# d'apres lspci -vv, valeurs decomposees en 4 gammes
include port 0xb000-0xb7ff
include port 0xb800-0xbfff
include port 0xc000-0xc7ff
include port 0xc800-0xcfff
(2) with Win XP, the values put in the config.opts file :
# d'apres WinXP, valeurs decomposees en 4 gammes
include port 0xcc00-0xccff
include port 0xd000-0xd0ff
include port 0xd400-0xd4ff
include port 0xdc00-0xdcff
For the two tested cases, the memory range is in the config.opts file
the following :
# d'apres WinXP :
include memory 0xfa200000-0xfeafcfff
These are the values given by Win XP such as :
#include 0xfa200000-0xfa200fff
#include 0xfb200000-0xfd1fffff
#include 0xfd200000-0xfd200fff
#include 0xfdaf5000-0xfeaf4fff
#include 0xfeaf5000-0xfeaf5fff
#include 0xfeaf6000-0xfeaf6fff
#include 0xfeaf7000-0xfeaf7fff
#include 0xfeafc000-0xfeafcfff
If I use the values of the PCI bridge secondary=02 (include memory
0xf8a00000-0xfeafffff)
or of the two Cardbus (include memory 0xf8a00000-0xfd1ff000) : it does
not work.
I know that this is very curious but I am sure now that this is the only
way to get the PCMCIA card working.
How to explain ? I don't know :-) !
Kind regards
Pascal
Hi Laurent:
Actually I have 3 Athlon 64 boxes,including my laptop, running fine with
suse 9.2 with no errors.
One of my motherboards is a K8V Deluxe with a 3200 Clawhammer CPU.
I also have an acer Notebook Aspitr 1513lmi with an Nvidia chipset,
before updating the bios I had several acpi and thermal problems
problems. Maybe your cpu is a Newcastle core not very well recognized by
the current BIOS so upgrade first!! it wouldn't do any harm if performed
correctly!
Normally the bios update should be performed from a rw media to allow
you to save a backup of your current bios, so try with usb memory. (on
hp web site there is a nice utility that allows you to format bootable
usb keys.
The other method is using windows if you have a dual boot system!
hope it helps
Josep Maria Macip
>>>Laurent GUERBY <laurent(a)guerby.net> 02/11/05 8:07 pm >>>
Hi,
Even if my current BIOS option Cool&Quiet is on,
SuSE 9.2 kernel-default-2.6.8-24.11 reports otherwise:
powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version
1.00.09b)
powernow-k8: BIOS error - no PSB
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
I'm thinking of updating my BIOS which is currently:
str1: American Megatrends Inc.
str2: 1001.005
str3: 02/09/2004
str1: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
str2: K8VSEDX
str3: Rev 1.xx
str4: MB-1234567890
to something more recent, on the ASUS site I found:
File Type BIOS
File Name K8vsedx5.zip
File Size 422669 bytes Version 1005
Date 2004/12/22
Download 5501
Has anyone used this BIOS version, and does Cool & Quiet work
on this motherboard with a recent enough BIOS?
My AMD64 machine has no floppy, I assume I have to burn a CD or play
with an USB key boot, any URL or steps to do so?
Thanks in advance,
Laurent
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I'm having trouble configuring VMWare in SuSE 9.2 64bit.
Installed the latest vmware fine but when I run vmware-config.pl to configure
it, I get:
Building the vmmon module.
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config9/vmmon-only'
make -C /usr/src/linux/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24'
Makefile:465: .config: No such file or directory
CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config9/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o
/bin/sh: scripts/basic/fixdep: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config9/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config9/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24'
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config9/vmmon-only'
Unable to build the vmmon module.
For more information on how to troubleshoot module-related problems, please
visit our Web site at "http://www.vmware.com/download/modules/modules.html"
and
"http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/linux/prebuilt_modules_linux.html".
Execution aborted.
Has anyone been successful?
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:44:08 -0600
Kevin Wilson <Kevin.Wilson(a)comtrol.com> wrote:
> No you should be able to upgrade. Disable the usb in the bios and try
> again,
> it should let you get to the installer.
Thanks. That was the solution, though I can't quite see why, since it
said that activating USB devices was a "success". I guess I'm too
naive to think that this might mean that something failed :)
Anyway, after a re-install I'm almost back to normal.
Gratefully,
- Richard.
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http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
Hi,
I am planning to buy a new computer. I thought of:
- Mainboard ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe
- CPU Athlon64 3500+ (Winchester)
- RAM 2048MB
The mainboard is a PCI express one. Will it work with suse 9.2?
Now I am looking for a SATA RAID controller. I have heard much positive of
3ware escalade 8506. But it is a PCI (without express) card. Will it work
with the board?
What SATA RAID controllers can you recommend?
I have got an old AVMB1 PCI ISDN card. Will it work with the new board?
What graphics card do you recommend? 3d is nice to have but not necessary.
Good linux compatibility is more important. It should support old VGA and LCD
displays.
I am trying to build a system with good disk- and network-IO-performance and
CPU performance.
Thanks,
Torsten