PowerEdge that works with FC4!

[Matt Domsch]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 10:53:08PM +0100, Nick Marsh wrote:
>    Just spent 3 days trying to get FC4 to work properly on a PE 2450. It runs
>    for 5-10 minutes and then hangs (can*t logon as root, can*t open apps
>    through the GUI, etc). Tried changing memory, RAID card, SCSI drives,
>    disabling network card, onboard SCSI just about everything but the
>    motherboard and onboard video adapter. Even updated the firmware on the
>    PERC card, system BIOS and SCSI disks. Still the same. I noticed the 2450
>    is one of the PE*s not Redhat certified.

That would be this bug, which I ran into on my own PE2400, but was
never able to resolve.  The system isn't hung, it's just that no timer
tick interrupts are happening anymore.  I don't have the hardware
anymore to reproduce.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161153


>  Can anyone advise on Dell PE of
>  PIII 1000Mhz or above (pref. Rack) that has been tried and tested with FC4
>  or FC5 and is known to work.

I'll defer, but everything newer than 4th generation PowerEdges should
be fine.

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Matt Domsch
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