[NBLUG/talk] Finding an compatible IDE motherboard

[Todd Cary]

Lincoln -

Conceptually, what you say makes sense.  Red Hat 9 works with the 
BE7-RAID board so what would be different in Centos (Red Hat Enterprise 
4) so that it will not work?  Granted, the Kernel is different in RH 
Enterprise from RH 9, but is it that different?

These are areas where my lack of knowledge/experience puts me at a 
disadvantage.

On the Highpoint site, I here is this:

http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/bios_rr133.htm

Then I had this exchange some time ago where the proprietary drivers are 
discussed, but I am not sure what to make of it.

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-September/052353.html

Does this make sense to you?

Todd



Lincoln Peters wrote:
> On Friday 10 November 2006 19:11, Todd Cary wrote:
>   
>> Greatly appreciate your interest/question.  I have Centos 4 running on
>> an old box; not sure of the motherboard or CPU.  But when I went to
>> upgrade my Red Hat 9 to Centos 4 or Fedora 5 (I believe it was 5) or the
>> Linux on a CD (Ubuntu), none will install.
>>
>> Now it may be due to my lack of understanding about upgrading drivers
>> that I can't upgrade.  My main goal is to have Centos 4 on the computer
>> due to the great performance on the other box (I have not had to touch
>> it :-) ) and to have them both as close as possible since they are
>> suppose to be "backups" to each other.
>>     
>
> If the new distro doesn't support the board, it's more likely that the drivers 
> were left out to save space.  But the drivers should still be present in the 
> Linux kernel sources, so one option might be to build a custom kernel 
> (containing the necessary drivers) that you can use both for the install and 
> first boot, i.e. until you get the custom kernel installed on the hard disk.
>
> This should work in principle, but I've never tried it myself.
>
>
>   

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