[YBA] Linux on Intel R1000GZ

[E.S. Rosenberg]

2013/2/25 Jonathan Ben Avraham <yba at tkos.co.il>

> Hi Linux-IL colleagues,
> Last night I installed CentOS 6.3 on an Intel R1000GZ server.
>
> My intent at first was to install Debian Wheezy, but I was unable to find
> information on drivers for Debian that support either the RSTe or ESRT2
> (LSI) configuration of the RAID card.
>
> So after giving up on Wheezy I tried to install Ubuntu 12.04 desktop. This
> distribution detected the RAID in RSTe configuration, but apparently not
> correctly since at the end of the installation it was unable to install
> grub anywhere.
>
> It seems that Intel only supports RHEL and Oracle Linux on the R1000GZ
> servers, so my third option, which succeeded, was to install CentOS 6.3
> with the BIOS RAID in RSTe configuration.
>
> The reasoning behind not trying harder to find a solution for Wheezy is
> that by using a base OS that supports the board OOTB I will have a better
> chance of getting automated notification of updates for the RSTe drivers
> and any other proprietary drivers without manual searching. In any event, I
> only intend to use the CentOS as a host OS for other mostly Debian-based
> OS's. Is this reasoning sound, or am I a wimp for giving up on Wheezy? In
> general, would installing the base OS that best fits the board regardless
> of other (mostly ideological) considerations be the best advice to
> customers, considering the support implications? (I am assuming that
> selecting the board for the OS is not, in general, an option.)
>
If you know what OS you need/want you should always select the hardware
accordingly, regardless what environment (*nix/MS/other), once the hardware
has been dictated to you then you find the best matching OS for hw & needs.
פורים שמח,
אליהו

>
> Purim Sameah,
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