[ale] Strange errors with RHEL 6.3 install. .

[Rich Faulkner]

I'm installing RHEL 6.3 on Trenton TSB7053 PICMG 1.3 system host boards
(SHB) w/Xeon E3-1200 series and i5/i7 platforms w/C206 PCH w/o issue.
Also do installs to the Trenton JXT6966 SHB w/Xeon 5500-series CPU's and
Intel 3420 PCH.  No issues there as well.  Only issue I have run into
lately is EHCI driver issues from RHEL 5.8 on the TSB (have to disable
Power Technology in BIOS or set Package C-State to "C0" if for a
"permissive" setting) due to USB mse/kyb blinking on/off.  This issue
goes away with RHEL 6.x.  Other issue I have fought lately is:  RHEL 6.3
on JXT6966 SHB on Trenton BPX6929 (PICMG 1.3 backplane) running Intel
quad-port NIC and a specific 1553 card.  This issue revolves around
ordering in PCIE between the expansion cards, known errata on PCIE
switches, known errata on Intel 83576 chip on the quad-port, known
errata on Intel 5500 and support for AER in RHEL.  (It just don't mix
but I do have them all working!)  All installs are from DVD media to
local HDD.  No PXE booting.

I know it's not your problem; but these are the issues that I have been
wrestling with in the past few months.  Hope this helps someone....

Rich in Lilburn


On Mon, 2013-01-14 at 21:56 +0000, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> I did the install of RHEL6.3 on a couple of DELL PowerEdge servers
> last  month from DVD ISOs I’d downloaded from RedHat’s site at the
> time and didn’t see an issue like that.
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> Is the /mnt/sysimage something in your ramdisk or are you loading from
> a kickstart server that is exporting the filesystem?
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> Note:  Starting with 6.1 or so RHEL introduced biosdev support to
> determine where NICs physically are so that what was eth0 might now be
> something like en1 or p1p1 assuming your hardware supports that.   The
> Dells I was loading do – not sure if your HP does but if you’re
> relying on the network for the install it could be an issue with the
> name not being what you expect.
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> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> David Ritchie
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 4:20 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> Subject: [ale] Strange errors with RHEL 6.3 install. .
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> Has anyone seen a problem with installing RHEL 6 update 3 on new
> hardware? it starts up ok, but gets about 120 packages into the
> installed and forgets where the RPM's are located ("'Can't
> find /mnt/sysimage/var/lib/rpm' ), sends a error message then aborts.
> Processor is an i5 and this has an EFI bios on it... 
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>  Target is a HP Elite 8300 SFF desktop... which claims to be
> certiified as a target platform. Any ideas?
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