Good thing you have a good memory!

Glad to hear things have cleared up, thanks for the after action report.

On 6/9/07, Richard Toland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There was a conversation with Mike and I had just worked that problem out. I
> decided to upgrade my PII cluster that uses P6LX-A+ SCSI wide mobos. I
> upgraded all of the nodes with 40Gb HDs and had to limit the LBA sectors in
> order to keeping them from locking at POST. Once I did that, on reboot, I
> would see the POST and IDE devices poll, but after that, I would just see
> GRUB and a space and a blinking cursor.
>
> This was fixed when I went to the BIOS and changed the addressing mode from
> AUTO (which tried to use large addressing) to LBA. I vaguely remember years
> back that GRUB had to use LBA with some older BIOSs and HDs larger than
> 8.4Gb.
>
> I was also able to use the standard OSCAR Kernel build instead of the UYOK
> option. So OSCAR 5.0 installed on Fedora FC5 and all of the nodes imaged
> just fine. A good upgrade from RH9 with OSCAR 3.0.
>
> Thanks.
>
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