It’s sort of a relationship between myself and this Tyan. Same server, changing demands. This time, we’ve had to install on this server RHEL4 32bit. Net-installing RHEL4 Update 3 was impossible. See here, so we’ve installed it from CDs (didn’t have PCI-X network card handy). When booting the server, it showed us only a single…
In my post just below, I have defined a set of tests to verify the possible cause of the tg3 problem. It had nothing to do with autoneg, and was fixed in RHEL 4 Update 4. That 32bit installer works correctly. One last thing to test – rebuild the installer initrd, and replace tg3 module…
I have a PXE installation server setup, and it usually works quite well. I have tried to install a Tyan based system using this setup, but this time – RHEL4 U3 X86 and not the usual X86_64 system. RH installer starts by asking few questions (language, keyboard, method of installation) and fails to obtain DHCP…
This board is a tricky board. 4GB RAM and above behave in a weird manner in Linux. It appears that PCI 32bit mapping doesn’t work correctly under Linux. To allow Linux to work on this hardware without failure (such as kernel crush during startup), you must follow these three simple guidelines: 1. Spread the memory…
When adding a certain shell to an HP-UX system, for example, /usr/bin/tcsh, each user set to use this shell will not be able to FTP to the machine, until there is entry in /etc/shells. The trick is that even if the file doesn’t exist, you have to create it. By default, HP-UX allows only /sbin/sh…
Problem as follows: A Linux server is connected to a 1Gb/s LAN using 1Gb/s interface. I was told that SSH to the machine fails with “socket error” when done from Windows/Putty. One of the tests was done using Linux/ssh client, and it went fine. A switch was replaced, and other methods of detection showed weird…
