Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 over serial port on router board ?

Le 23/03/2018 à 16:52, Kay Schenk a écrit : > Great! Would love to hear more about your experience! Here's the happy end in detail. https://blog.microlinux.fr/centos-pc-engines/ Works like a charm. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'église - 30730 Mon

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 over serial port on router board ?

Le 27/03/2018 à 15:50, John Hodrien a écrit : > If you're going to do an interactive install, do it graphically via > VNC, as has already been suggested. After much more experimenting, I can report a full success. I managed to install CentOS 7 on the board, using a mix of serial console and VNC. W

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 over serial port on router board ?

On Tue, 27 Mar 2018, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: The next step is to find the right combination of boot parameters so I can install through the text console. So far, I've had no luck. Any suggestions ? If you're going to do an interactive install, do it graphically via VNC, as has already been sugg

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 over serial port on router board ?

Le 23/03/2018 à 16:52, Kay Schenk a écrit : > Great! Would love to hear more about your experience! Right, here goes. So, I got the hardware this morning: Calexium router board with a quad-core AMD processor, 4 GB ram, 1 TB SATA disk, a serial console and all the cables. I have the board connect

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 over serial port on router board ?

On 03/16/2018 10:09 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Le 16/03/2018 à 14:29, Leon Fauster a écrit : We use a DIGITUS USB2Serial Converter (Prolific based USBID: VID:067B PID:2303) and then screen /dev/DEVICE 115200 Thanks everybody for your numerous suggestions. As soon as I have the hardware, I'l

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 over serial port on router board ?

Le 16/03/2018 à 14:29, Leon Fauster a écrit : > We use a DIGITUS USB2Serial Converter (Prolific based USBID: VID:067B > PID:2303) and then > > screen /dev/DEVICE 115200 Thanks everybody for your numerous suggestions. As soon as I have the hardware, I'll fiddle with it and then report back my fi

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 over serial port on router board ?

> Am 16.03.2018 um 14:21 schrieb isdtor : > > Nicolas Kovacs writes: >> Hi, >> >> I have to install CentOS 7 for a client, to act as cache & filtering >> proxy using Squid. >> >> I'd like to use this piece of specialized hardware : >> >> http://store.calexium.com/fr/systeme-pre-assemble/869-sy

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 over serial port on router board ?

Nicolas Kovacs writes: > Hi, > > I have to install CentOS 7 for a client, to act as cache & filtering > proxy using Squid. > > I'd like to use this piece of specialized hardware : > > http://store.calexium.com/fr/systeme-pre-assemble/869-systeme-pre-assemble-rackmatrix-apu-amd-gx-412tc-quatre-co

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 over serial port on router board ?

On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: I have to install CentOS 7 for a client, to act as cache & filtering proxy using Squid. I'd like to use this piece of specialized hardware : http://store.calexium.com/fr/systeme-pre-assemble/869-systeme-pre-assemble-rackmatrix-apu-amd-gx-412tc-quatre-

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 over serial port on router board ?

On 16/03/18 12:57, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Hi, I have to install CentOS 7 for a client, to act as cache & filtering proxy using Squid. I'd like to use this piece of specialized hardware : http://store.calexium.com/fr/systeme-pre-assemble/869-systeme-pre-assemble-rackmatrix-apu-amd-gx-412tc-qua

[CentOS] Install CentOS 7 over serial port on router board ?

Hi, I have to install CentOS 7 for a client, to act as cache & filtering proxy using Squid. I'd like to use this piece of specialized hardware : http://store.calexium.com/fr/systeme-pre-assemble/869-systeme-pre-assemble-rackmatrix-apu-amd-gx-412tc-quatre-coeurs-1-ghz.html There is no VGA or HDM

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 on MBR hard disk

Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > Can you try to see if Fedora 27 has the same problem? If it has then > this is a problem that upstream needs to fix on EL releases. If it > isn't then I would lean more towards the motherboard/bios combo > saying something which says "my legacy support is iffy.. use

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 on MBR hard disk

So is the end goal to have dual boot? You want to preserve the existing Cent OS installation on this drive and also install Cent OS 7? The biggest problem is the installer is really not very smart when it comes to this use case. It's friendly for Windows and macOS dual boot, but fairly well facepl

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 on MBR hard disk

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 5:18 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > The only other thing I can think of is that the disk was already > formatted to GPT. In that case it has to be EFI. [I had a disk which > was GPT partitioned and removing that was quite a challenge as I had > done a 'dd if=/dev/zero o

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 on MBR hard disk

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018, 4:18 PM Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > The only other thing I can think of is that the disk was already > formatted to GPT. In that case it has to be EFI. [I had a disk which > was GPT partitioned and removing that was quite a challenge as I had > done a 'dd if=/dev/zero of

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 on MBR hard disk

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018, 3:19 PM Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > I have a UEFI system, but I want to install CentOS on a MBR (not GPT) > hard disk. > Why? While the UEFI spec permits using MBR for booting, it's confusing because there's no actual single standard for MBR. There is for GPT. Anyway, all

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 on MBR hard disk

On 15 February 2018 at 21:48, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > Stephen J Smoogen wrote: > >> OK wild guess on install options as sometimes they will do this but >> not say they did it. Try adding inst.gpt=false to the boot line. > > Sorry, that didn't work. Nor did installing CentOS 7 without a boot >

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 on MBR hard disk

Stephen J Smoogen wrote: > OK wild guess on install options as sometimes they will do this but > not say they did it. Try adding inst.gpt=false to the boot line. Sorry, that didn't work. Nor did installing CentOS 7 without a boot loader, chroot-ing into it, and trying to install grub2 manually:

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 on MBR hard disk

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 06:45:51PM -0500, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > I am guessing because my drives were blank and smaller than 2 TB that > > it defaulted to MBR even when the system had a UEFI BIOS (as long as > > the firmware is in legacy mode). > > Right, th

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 on MBR hard disk

On 15 February 2018 at 18:45, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > >> I am guessing because my drives were blank and smaller than 2 TB that >> it defaulted to MBR even when the system had a UEFI BIOS (as long as >> the firmware is in legacy mode). > > Right, the problem seems

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 on MBR hard disk

Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > I am guessing because my drives were blank and smaller than 2 TB that > it defaulted to MBR even when the system had a UEFI BIOS (as long as > the firmware is in legacy mode). Right, the problem seems to arise if you already have partitions on your MBR disk. Perhaps

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 on MBR hard disk

On 15 February 2018 at 18:29, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > >> OK I am going with documentation not being right and/or I have been >> very lucky with my installs. > > If you read > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/installat

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 on MBR hard disk

Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > OK I am going with documentation not being right and/or I have been > very lucky with my installs. If you read https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/installation_guide/sect-disk-partitioning-setup-x86#sect-bootloader-mbr-gpt

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 on MBR hard disk

On 15 February 2018 at 18:05, Fred Smith wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 05:31:42PM -0500, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> On 15 February 2018 at 17:19, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: >> > I have a UEFI system, but I want to install CentOS on a MBR (not GPT) >> > hard disk. >> > >> > The installation p

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 on MBR hard disk

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 05:31:42PM -0500, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 15 February 2018 at 17:19, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > > I have a UEFI system, but I want to install CentOS on a MBR (not GPT) > > hard disk. > > > > The installation program keeps telling me that I must create an "EFI > > s

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 on MBR hard disk

Stephen J Smoogen wrote: > If the installer is doing that then it usually means that the UEFI > firmware is either > a) not in BIOS compatibility mode > b) does not respond in a way that Linux detects or > c) the disk is larger than what BIOS compatibility mode will allow. On the MBR disk, I

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 on MBR hard disk

Sometimes in bios it is called legacy mode Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 15, 2018, at 5:31 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > >> On 15 February 2018 at 17:19, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: >> I have a UEFI system, but I want to install CentOS on a MBR (not GPT) >> hard disk. >> >> The installation p

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 on MBR hard disk

On 15 February 2018 at 17:19, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > I have a UEFI system, but I want to install CentOS on a MBR (not GPT) > hard disk. > > The installation program keeps telling me that I must create an "EFI > system partition on a GPT disk mounted at /boot/efi". > > I can't find a way to wor

[CentOS] Install CentOS 7 on MBR hard disk

I have a UEFI system, but I want to install CentOS on a MBR (not GPT) hard disk. The installation program keeps telling me that I must create an "EFI system partition on a GPT disk mounted at /boot/efi". I can't find a way to work around this. Is there a solution? -- Yves Bellefeuille __

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos not detect the hard drive

Kk sir. -Original Message- From: CentOS [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 10:37 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Install Centos not detect the hard drive On 12/12/2016 8:55 PM, JEYARAJ wrote: > I'm instal

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos not detect the hard drive

On 12/12/2016 8:55 PM, JEYARAJ wrote: I'm installing the Centos 7.0 from Intel 2u chassis server, Not detect the hard disk. Please help me sir. Had drive --> Intel SSD -240 GB insufficient information. 'intel 2u chassis server' could describe most anything. the size of the chassis and the

[CentOS] Install Centos not detect the hard drive

Hi All, I'm installing the Centos 7.0 from Intel 2u chassis server, Not detect the hard disk. Please help me sir. Had drive --> Intel SSD -240 GB Regards, Jeyaraj. M ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On Tue, September 9, 2014 9:33 am, Mark Tinberg wrote: > > On Sep 8, 2014, at 10:25 AM, Valeri Galtsev > wrote: > >> Mark Tinberg wrote: >>> A lack of updates can also mean that there is a lack of effort or >>> competence is tracking down and fixing bugs, or not a large enough customer

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On Tue, September 9, 2014 9:37 am, Mark Tinberg wrote: > > On Sep 8, 2014, at 11:57 AM, Valeri Galtsev > wrote: > >> >> On Mon, September 8, 2014 9:19 am, Mark Tinberg wrote: >>> >>> On Sep 6, 2014, at 3:42 PM, Valeri Galtsev >>> wrote: >>> On Sat, September 6, 2014 2:27 pm, Jonathan Billin

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On Sep 8, 2014, at 11:57 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Mon, September 8, 2014 9:19 am, Mark Tinberg wrote: >> >> On Sep 6, 2014, at 3:42 PM, Valeri Galtsev >> wrote: >> >>> On Sat, September 6, 2014 2:27 pm, Jonathan Billings wrote: I choose vendors that make it relatively pain

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On Sep 8, 2014, at 10:25 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > Mark Tinberg wrote: >> >>> A lack of updates can also mean that there is a lack of effort or >> competence >>> is tracking down and fixing bugs, or not a large enough customer base >>> with >>> the same bugs to generate sufficient, actionable

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On Mon, September 8, 2014 2:45 pm, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2014-09-08, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> >> I gave on the SiperMicro quite a while ago. Not because of BIOS, but >> because of hardware engineering flaws. Which at least manifests itself >> with system boards for AMD CPUs. These (AMD) boards

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

Keith Keller wrote: > On 2014-09-08, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> >> I gave on the SiperMicro quite a while ago. Not because of BIOS, but >> because of hardware engineering flaws. Which at least manifests itself >> with system boards for AMD CPUs. These (AMD) boards work reliably for >> only 2-4 years

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On 2014-09-08, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > I gave on the SiperMicro quite a while ago. Not because of BIOS, but > because of hardware engineering flaws. Which at least manifests itself > with system boards for AMD CPUs. These (AMD) boards work reliably for only > 2-4 years, after that they die. Not

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On Mon, September 8, 2014 9:19 am, Mark Tinberg wrote: > > On Sep 6, 2014, at 3:42 PM, Valeri Galtsev > wrote: > >> On Sat, September 6, 2014 2:27 pm, Jonathan Billings wrote: >>> >>> I choose vendors that make it relatively painless to apply the firmware >>> updates under Linux. >> >> This is on

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On Mon, September 8, 2014 9:48 am, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Mark Tinberg wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 09:46:36AM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: But that is exactly what I said: if the hardware was released and sold with this piece of crap BIOS, then you shouldn't be buying that j

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On 2014-09-08, Mark Tinberg wrote: > > On Sep 7, 2014, at 1:35 AM, Keith Keller > wrote: > > This is why I would say that firmware updates are part of the preventative > maintenance in the same way kernel updates are, if the bug was already fixed > and if you had flashed this during a normal m

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

Mark Tinberg wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 09:46:36AM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >>> But that is exactly what I said: if the hardware was released and sold >>> with this piece of crap BIOS, then you shouldn't be buying that junk in >>> the first place. Or at least stop buying the crap made

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On Sep 7, 2014, at 1:35 AM, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2014-09-06, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> >> ... I've mentined manufacturers in another reply: tyan, lsi, 3ware, ati... > > Even 3ware has had buggy firmwares. I once had to flash a 3ware card > years into production because it was not until t

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On Sep 6, 2014, at 3:42 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > On Sat, September 6, 2014 2:27 pm, Jonathan Billings wrote: >> >> I choose vendors that make it relatively painless to apply the firmware >> updates under Linux. > > This is only so for either very rich, who can afford to have stand by > hard

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On Sep 6, 2014, at 2:27 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 09:46:36AM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> But that is exactly what I said: if the hardware was released and sold >> with this piece of crap BIOS, then you shouldn't be buying that junk in >> the first place. Or at le

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On Sun, September 7, 2014 8:55 pm, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2014-09-07, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> >> I guess after that I should declare myself to be lucky. None out of more >> than a couple of dozens of 3ware cards ever did harm for me. I did once >> had one of them fried (my clumsiness most like

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On 2014-09-07, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > I guess after that I should declare myself to be lucky. None out of more > than a couple of dozens of 3ware cards ever did harm for me. I did once > had one of them fried (my clumsiness most likely), which then just didn't > come up (3ware just replaced car

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On Sun, September 7, 2014 1:04 pm, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2014-09-07, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> >> It doesn't sound like you are flashing all 3ware cards you have in >> production every time new firmware release it out. It doesn't sound >> either >> like you had fatal failure of production box b

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On 2014-09-07, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > It doesn't sound like you are flashing all 3ware cards you have in > production every time new firmware release it out. It doesn't sound either > like you had fatal failure of production box because of bug in 3ware > firmware. Correct me if I'm wrong, other

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On Sun, September 7, 2014 1:35 am, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2014-09-06, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> >> ... I've mentined manufacturers in another reply: tyan, lsi, 3ware, >> ati... > > Even 3ware has had buggy firmwares. I once had to flash a 3ware card > years into production because it was not un

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On 2014-09-06, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > ... I've mentined manufacturers in another reply: tyan, lsi, 3ware, ati... Even 3ware has had buggy firmwares. I once had to flash a 3ware card years into production because it was not until then that this particular bug was exposed by my configuration.

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On 9/6/2014 4:02 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: That doesn't mean that you have to flash firmware onto LSI controller every so often after you placed controller into production because original version of firmware is crap, and updated version will turn out to be crap several Months after its release,

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On Sat, September 6, 2014 4:52 pm, John R Pierce wrote: > On 9/6/2014 1:53 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> ... I've mentioned manufacturers in another reply: tyan, lsi, 3ware, >> ati... > > A few months ago, I had to flash the firmware on a LSI 2008 aka 9211-8i > because I needed the card in "IT" (In

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On 9/6/2014 1:53 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: ... I've mentined manufacturers in another reply: tyan, lsi, 3ware, ati... A few months ago, I had to flash the firmware on a LSI 2008 aka 9211-8i because I needed the card in "IT" (Initiator Target) mode rather than "IR" (Integrated Raid), and this

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On Sat, September 6, 2014 2:16 pm, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2014-09-06, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> I get rackmount >> ones assembled by small company (companies) and about 1/2 of cost of >> similar hardware from Dell. Those are for the most part based on Tyan >> barebones. And during last at least

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On Sat, September 6, 2014 2:27 pm, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 09:46:36AM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> But that is exactly what I said: if the hardware was released and sold >> with this piece of crap BIOS, then you shouldn't be buying that junk in >> the first place. Or

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 09:46:36AM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > But that is exactly what I said: if the hardware was released and sold > with this piece of crap BIOS, then you shouldn't be buying that junk in > the first place. Or at least stop buying the crap made by _this_ > manufacturer in a f

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On 2014-09-06, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > I get rackmount > ones assembled by small company (companies) and about 1/2 of cost of > similar hardware from Dell. Those are for the most part based on Tyan > barebones. And during last at least decade I never had a "must to" flash > newer BIOS situation wi

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On Sat, September 6, 2014 10:07 am, John R Pierce wrote: > On 9/6/2014 7:46 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> But that is exactly what I said: if the hardware was released and sold >> with this piece of crap BIOS, then you shouldn't be buying that junk in >> the first place. Or at least stop buying the

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On 9/6/2014 7:46 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: But that is exactly what I said: if the hardware was released and sold with this piece of crap BIOS, then you shouldn't be buying that junk in the first place. Or at least stop buying the crap made by_this_ manufacturer in a future. I'm still not convinc

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On Sat, September 6, 2014 9:21 am, Steven Tardy wrote: > On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Valeri Galtsev > wrote: > >> >> I was always fascinated: why [some] people are dying to upgrade >> firmware? >> It doesn't matter whether by firmware you mean system board BIOS, or >> firmware of some card. W

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > I was always fascinated: why [some] people are dying to upgrade firmware? > It doesn't matter whether by firmware you mean system board BIOS, or > firmware of some card. Why taking chance having your machine hosed? Because BIOS updates o

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On Fri, September 5, 2014 2:20 pm, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > By the bye, about firmware updates: I like Dell's the best of all. HP, run > it from some kind of DOS, and hope. Dell, you can do from a running CentOS > system (I've done it a few times), and unlike everyone else's firmware > updates, i

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

Hey just coming into this conversation. Here is an Idea.. Why not install a SATA card into the machine, one that supports AHCI. I'm guessing there is a free PCI or PCI-E slot. They are made, here is a link, I found quickly with a google search.. Bang for buck, it could be the cheapest option.

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

Jason Pyeron wrote: >> From: m.r...@5-cent.us >> Dumb question: these machines are getting very long in the tooth, but >> you're putting SSD's in them? New, or newer machines, would > >> solve a lot of problems > > Their warrantees are good for another few years... And the money is not :) War

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

> -Original Message- > From: m.r...@5-cent.us > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2014 15:19 > To: CentOS mailing list > > Jason Pyeron wrote: > >> From: m.r...@5-cent.us > >> Jason Pyeron wrote: > >> >> From: Jason Pyeron > >> >> > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce >

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

By the bye, about firmware updates: I like Dell's the best of all. HP, run it from some kind of DOS, and hope. Dell, you can do from a running CentOS system (I've done it a few times), and unlike everyone else's firmware updates, it says, "collecting information", then *tells* you that a) this upda

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

Jason Pyeron wrote: >> From: m.r...@5-cent.us >> Jason Pyeron wrote: >> >> From: Jason Pyeron >> >> > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce >> >> > On 8/31/2014 2:03 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote: >> >> > > Yes. They support internal SATA drives, we are changing >> >> > from spinn

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

---Original Message- > >> > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > >> > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce > >> > Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2014 17:34 > >> > To: centos@centos.org > >> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Install

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

ce >> > Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2014 17:34 >> > To: centos@centos.org >> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell >> > PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues) >> > >> > On 8/31/2014 2:03 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote: >>

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

2014 17:34 > > To: centos@centos.org > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell > > PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues) > > > > On 8/31/2014 2:03 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote: > > > Yes. They support internal SATA drives, we are changing

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On 8/31/2014 3:15 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote: > Good question, I will ask Dell. The BIOS only has Off and Auto as choices. Is > there a preference I should shoot for? ACHI is pretty much required for SSD support. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the midd

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce > Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2014 17:34 > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell > PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (ha

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

On 8/31/2014 2:03 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote: > Yes. They support internal SATA drives, we are changing from spinning drives > to SSD. I am working with Dell to get a BIOS patch, but I wont hold my breath. is the SATA interface in AHCI mode or legacy IDE emulation? -- john r pierce

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 andaSSD (hardware probing issues)

> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Rainer Duffner > Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2014 17:09 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell > PowerEdge 2970 anda

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

Am 31.08.2014 um 23:03 schrieb Jason Pyeron : >> >> Is that actually a supported configuration (in the Dell-sense)?. >> > > Yes. They support internal SATA drives, we are changing from spinning drives > to SSD. I am working with Dell to get a BIOS patch, but I wont hold my breath. >> >>

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Rainer Duffner > Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2014 16:54 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell > PowerEdge 2970 and a

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and a SSD (hardware probing issues)

Am 31.08.2014 um 21:52 schrieb Jason Pyeron : > I have a fleet of 2970s and we are upgrading the hardrives on the motherboard > SATA ports (A/B not the PERC backplane) when a "detecting hardware" is > performed the system crashes, reboots and gives an E1422 error code (useless > video: https:/

[CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and a SSD (hardware probing issues)

I have a fleet of 2970s and we are upgrading the hardrives on the motherboard SATA ports (A/B not the PERC backplane) when a "detecting hardware" is performed the system crashes, reboots and gives an E1422 error code (useless video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhyMeUHJar4). We narrowed it d

Re: [CentOS] - install centos via usb stick

> I also tried with other distributions and every time I get the same > result side bios and there 'no setting for secure boot or similar In short, enter the UEFI setup and disable secure boot (UEFI replaces BIOS). There's information at: http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/17058-secure-boot-ena

Re: [CentOS] - install centos via usb stick

On 10/12/13 02:49 PM, Paolo De Michele wrote: > hello everybody, > > before you come to write this post I checked the official documentation of > centos. to be brief: > > - I format my usb pendrive in fat > - Using the command dd if =name.iso of =/dev/sdx (with or without bs for > the purposes of i

[CentOS] - install centos via usb stick

hello everybody, before you come to write this post I checked the official documentation of centos. to be brief: - I format my usb pendrive in fat - Using the command dd if =name.iso of =/dev/sdx (with or without bs for the purposes of issue, and 'indifferent) Restart the system and remains in t

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 6.3 to partitionable mdadm array

On 07/11/12 15:43, Hal Martin wrote: > > The software we're testing does not support being installed on LVM, so > if we want vendor support we need to install it on a partition. > > Hardware RAID is going to be used for deployment, but for lab testing > we were hoping to use mdadm and avoid buying

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 6.3 to partitionable mdadm array

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Nux! wrote: > On 07/11/12 15:10, Hal Martin wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I'm trying to install CentOS 6.3 to an mdadm partitionable array and >> not having any luck. >> >> The installer only allows me to create one file system per md device, >> or specify the md devi

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 6.3 to partitionable mdadm array

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Nux! wrote: > AFAIK installing on to partitionable md is a hack that is not > supported; it's cool, but is not supported by upstream. And when it > breaks I hear it can be quite unpleasant to fix. Then perhaps this link should be removed from the CentOS wiki:

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 6.3 to partitionable mdadm array

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Hal Martin wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm trying to install CentOS 6.3 to an mdadm partitionable array and > not having any luck. > > The installer only allows me to create one file system per md device, > or specify the md device as a LVM physical volume. I don't want

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 6.3 to partitionable mdadm array

On 07/11/12 15:10, Hal Martin wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm trying to install CentOS 6.3 to an mdadm partitionable array and > not having any luck. > > The installer only allows me to create one file system per md device, > or specify the md device as a LVM physical volume. I don't want to do > eithe

[CentOS] Install CentOS 6.3 to partitionable mdadm array

Hello all, I'm trying to install CentOS 6.3 to an mdadm partitionable array and not having any luck. The installer only allows me to create one file system per md device, or specify the md device as a LVM physical volume. I don't want to do either, I want to create one md device and create multip

Re: [CentOS] install CentOS 6 from minimal, console only

That's a neat device you have there. If you had a DB9 serial port I'd say you'll really want a null modem cable to interface with the device (but it doesn't) - hopefully you know or have the cable necessary to talk to it via the RJ-45 console. You may consider using CentOS 5 for the reason below.

Re: [CentOS] install CentOS 6 from minimal, console only

From: Mihamina Rakotomandimby > I would like to install CentOS on this: > http://www.lannerinc.com/x86_Network_Appliances/FW-7520 > - No VGA/DVI > - Only a "console" port (the old 9600 baudrate one) > - Boot on USB actived by default > Would you know a tutorial helping on installing CentOS on this

[CentOS] install CentOS 6 from minimal, console only

Hi all I would like to install CentOS on this: http://www.lannerinc.com/x86_Network_Appliances/FW-7520 - No VGA/DVI - Only a "console" port (the old 9600 baudrate one) - Boot on USB actived by default Would you know a tutorial helping on installing CentOS on this? I guess I have to - download the

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos on remote machine?

Juergen Gotteswinter wrote: > Am 12.10.11 16:48, schrieb Marko Weber: >> >> i have to an remote server contact via rescue console. >> How can i install centos there without any image or cd? > http://evcz.tk/blog/2008/10/21/remote-centos-install/ > > works with centos 4 / 5 / 6 and fedora Please d

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos on remote machine?

http://evcz.tk/blog/2008/10/21/remote-centos-install/ works with centos 4 / 5 / 6 and fedora Am 12.10.11 16:48, schrieb Marko Weber: > > hello , > i have to an remote server contact via rescue console. > How can i install centos there without any image or cd? > > with gentoo i untar a stage3 tarb

[CentOS] Install Centos on remote machine?

hello , i have to an remote server contact via rescue console. How can i install centos there without any image or cd? with gentoo i untar a stage3 tarball and latest portage , baking kernel - go! (shortversion) but how to do this with centos? i gooled last hour but only find howtos with cd / d

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS as KVM guest

On 4/29/11, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > Only problem is... networking still isn't working although brctl show > on the host shows that a vnet0 had been created and attached to the > bridge. Any pointers would be appreciated! Just to close off on this issue for the benefit of any future clueless

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS as KVM guest

On 4/28/11, Gleb Natapov wrote: > of virt stack. You should use libvirt or virt-manager instead. Especially > if you are concerned about security. I think libvirt can start guest on > headless server. > > If this still fails for you you need to complain to libvirt developers > (not in a rant mode,

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS as KVM guest

On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > BTW, can guests be installed on raw (unformatted or formatted) > partitions (not images)? Can virt-install do that? I tried it and had no > luck. > > - Jussi You can install them to logical volumes... Season to taste virt-install -p -n test_phys -r 512

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS as KVM guest

On 28.4.2011 20.29, Tru Huynh wrote: > does that mean that you volonteer to add some pages to wiki.centos.org > (-> centos-docs mailing list for more) ? ;P > Maybe I could, How could that be done? Though I should have started to think about that earlier, now the big install hassle starts to be ov

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS as KVM guest

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 08:17:46PM +0300, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > On 28.4.2011 18.58, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > > like anaconda not seeing the "dvd" > > (mounted ISO specified using --location) that it just booted from. > > That's ok, once you know that... But I agree, it is frustrating, because >

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