Supermicro H8DA8 Kernel Issues On CentOS5 | HyperVM
Oct 24, 2008
I just colocated a 2U supermicro server for a VPS node and experiencing troubles getting HyperVM (ovz) and centos5 to run on it. First of all, the h/w specs.:
2x dual-core opteron 280
12GB DDR400 ECC Reg. RAM
Supermicro H8DA8 mainboard
Adaptec 2120S RAID card with BBU, writecache on
6x73GB SCSI as RAID5+hotspare
All firmware updated
I asked DC staff to load centos5 x64. They installed 5.1 and it was running fine.
However, they said centos 5.2 didn't install. So, I ran a yum update and it updated to 5.2 including kernel.
After the update and issuing a reboot, the box did not come back online and on consoling it, they said error messages scroll too fast to be read after the centos splash screen and it loops on like that. Only the 5.1 kernel 2.6.18-53.el5 seem to boot fine though.
I booted with the old kernel and installed hyprvm; set grub to boot using the ovz kernel and rebooted. Sadly, the same errors and server non-responsive.
Does anyone have any clue regarding this issue? Should I try my luck with centos4.7 x64 instead?
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I tried reloading the system and same issue.
A screenshot is attached from the console while trying to boot up with any of the new kernels and panics.
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" if i try to connect with ssh and i enter the right password i get an error and ssh closes the connection. The answer already was in the ticket you opened:
Quote:
That is known bug dealt with PAM authentication.
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...purchase pre-built servers from Dell?
...purchase pre-build servers from HP?
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