Topic: [SOLVED] nForce 750a Mainboard SATA not seen M4N75TD

[linuxhelp]

Hello@ALL

does anyone knows help, sme 7.4/7.5 does not see nForce 750a SATA Drives at
install?

nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Chipset for SATA

thanks to ALL Tom

[janet]

linuxhelp

Typically you check the hardware compatibility list (hcl) for red hat el4/CentOS4, to see if that motherboard and driver/controller chipsets are compatible/supported.
Google will get you there.

Alternatively you could try installing SME8beta5 to see if that hardware is supported by the newer kernel.

You should be aware of all this by now, so please "help yourself" first.

[linuxhelp]

Hello Mary,

thanks for reply..i am confused about the SME 8.0/7.5 does not read
out the nforce sata chipsets clean, on boot dmesg write i/O error ahci can't
read out chipset nforce 750a.

works on:
- debian 5.0
- ubuntu 8-10.xx
- freebsd 8.0
- netbsd
works not on:
- redhat-el
- centos 4+5

SME is a very good tool, but if a customer tries to use newest Hardware like:
- Phenom 1090T X6 Core
- 8 GB RAM
- 6-Core Support Mainboard
the "normal" user is lost...
i will setup with help of a ATA Drive to compile a nforce module with SME...
same Problem was on my older Dell Poweredge Server with Raid 5 LSI Board cerc 2 chipset.

..not good..

[Stefano]

linuxhelp: you should always use RH certified hw with SME..

[linuxhelp]

Hi Stefano& Mary

8.0 beta5 works..now its tricky to restore smeserver.tgz cause
(tar -C / -xvzf smeserver.tgz from usbstick)
after restore yum database is corrupted. Is there a possibilty to restore
8.0beta package database?


try to use  8.0beta next time..
--
SOLVED..Server online..

[CharlieBrady]

8.0 beta5 works..now its tricky to restore smeserver.tgz cause
(tar -C / -xvzf smeserver.tgz from usbstick)
after restore yum database is corrupted.

Please report all problems via bug tracker. This is important. Please do it.

[CharlieBrady]

now its tricky to restore smeserver.tgz cause
(tar -C / -xvzf smeserver.tgz from usbstick)

That's not the correct way to restore from a backup. Did you have a reason not to use the initial console on first bootup?

[linuxhelp]

Hello Charlie,

yes i take that way, cause the restore of 7.5.1 does not clean restore all settings.
Test:
After Restore by Setup-Dialog the next step by me is always a #yum update to
inject always latest updates into the Server. But with the restore yum fails cause it
echos unsolved deps of ~80 packages.
To see why it happend i reinstall 8.0beta5 again, do not restore smeserver.tgz , and can update the Server
successfull. Then i restore manual by hand (tar -C / -xvfz...) reboot and login to Adminpanel. Go to
Softwareupdate, clean all Sources out, save, go back and readd all Sources. Now Yum don't fail.

With "default" restore yum fails, cause yum gets yum.conf of restore-file.tgz

Other question how can i change all the #db hosts values like server1.home.de to server2.home.de
and addtional domain-aliases like server1.company.com to server2.company.com if i transfer a restore (smeserver.tgz)
to a other mirror-server (server2), at moment i edit it manual by #db hosts delete..

- if i found more time i will try to find online-mirror solution for /home
- and want to learn SME inside (Developing if i can...)

[CharlieBrady]

yes i take that way, cause the restore of 7.5.1 does not clean restore all settings.
Test:
After Restore by Setup-Dialog the next step by me is always a #yum update to
inject always latest updates into the Server. But with the restore yum fails cause it
echos unsolved deps of ~80 packages.

Please report full details of your problem via the bug tracker. The only reason that 8.0beta5 exists is so that people like you can try to use it, and then report any problems they find via the bug tracker. That will allow 8.0beta6 to be produced which works without the problems that 8.0beta5 has.

[linuxhelp]

Hello Charlie - Bug reported http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6112

can you perhaps tell me which script/command  is started by the ssh-admin-text-console to Backup to USB Disk?
then i can plug usbdisk into the server and run backup daily..

[linuxhelp]

--Gotcha--

i got it.. with 7.5.1

Workaround (tested):
- go into the Award Bios
- go to SATA Mode look for "AHCI"
- activate AHCI scan on boot to yes
- insert SME-CD reboot on CD
- enter kernel-options= sme irqpoll noacpi noapic vga=791
- Setup your Server
- on first reboot add to kernel-grub line!!
- boot up and edit /boot/grub/menu.lst
- add irqpoll noacpi noapic there too..

sorry for my delay Charlie..

[CharlieBrady]

deleted..sorry

Please don't do that. The "Modify" button is there for you to correct errors, and add additional information, not so that you can erase history.

[cactus]

- enter kernel-options= sme irqpoll noacpi noapic vga=791

Do you really need all those parameters? AFAICT vga=791 does not have anything to do with your problem.