Re: RHEL 4.0 Update 3 on a Dell 500SC

["Stephen J. Smoogen" <smooge gmail com>]

On 4/3/06, McAleavey, Pat <pmcaleavey rsasecurity com> wrote:
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>
> Good day,
>
> This morning I attempted to install RHEL 4 Update 3 on two (2) Dell
> PowerEdge 500 SC machines. Both machines are identical except for one
> machine has a 20 Gig disk and the 2nd machine has a 250 Gig disk. Both disks
> are EIDE. Both machines are Intel P-III, 1.4 GHz, with 2 Gigs of memory.
>

Also make sure that you have the latest BIOS for the box. Most of the
problems I know of with the SC series were with SATA disks, but might
be something with the EIDE systems also. You also want to make sure
that you use a mem=512M and/or acpi=off on install to see if the
problem is related to the RHEL4U3 anaconda bug with bad memory issues.




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Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator