On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 06:34:36PM -0400, Andrew Reid wrote:
>
> Hi all --
>
> I regularly buy new machines for a computing cluster we
> run, which we try very hard to keep both homogeneous and
> stable. It's running Debian "etch" amd64 these days.
>
> Lately, I've been having trouble with some of the
> newer commodity mobos that have come with the new nodes.
>
> I got some Intel DG33BU boards, which initially didn't
> recognize their hard drives, but when booted with "pci=nommconf",
> eventually did, but then needed a custom e1000 driver for the
> on-board ethernet device.
>
> I also got some Asus P5GC-MX/1333 boards, and they needed
> a custom ethernet driver also, for which, fortunately, source
> code was on the provided CD.
>
> I also had some trouble with a one-off Asus P5VD2-VM SE
> board, that needed a custom sata_via module before it could
> see the hard drives. That one ended up not going in the
> cluster after all.
>
> But anyways, it seems to me that the bad old days of the
> mid-90s, when "know your hardware" was the mantra and the LHCL
> was the bible, are sort of coming back again.
>
> Ideally, what I'd like is a list of motherboards for which
> all on-board devices are known to work with the 2.6.18 kernel,
> but I'd settle for a list of chipsets, or even a list of SATA
> controllers and ethernet devices.
>
> I've googled around, but I haven't found a nice, compact
> source of all the info I want. Is there such a thing?
Not sure about an up to date list, but you could use the install images
from
http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/
Also check out:
http://wiki.debian.org/EtchAndAHalf
--
Chris.
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