What OS are you going to use?
Things to be checked 1. settings for to make management card working 2. Is the LSI FW on BIOS flash or another separate flash? 3. Boot from SAS raid directly? We may need to use big IDE flash for using tiny kernel and kexec...
YH
-----Original Message----- From: linuxbios-bounces@linuxbios.org [mailto:linuxbios-bounces@linuxbios.org] On Behalf Of Frank Rust Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 12:42 AM To: linuxbios@linuxbios.org Subject: [LinuxBIOS] Is this system supported? SUN FIRE X4100
Is this one supported, or might become supported soon? System SUN FIRE X4100
Mainboard manufacturer: (SUN?) Processor: one or two Opteron or Opteron Dual Core Chipset: AMD 8131, AMD 8111 IO: quad channel SAS raid (LSI SAS 1064) Net: 2 dual 10/100/1000 Ethernet Controllers (Intel FW82546 GB NIC) Video: ATI Rage XL Floppy Disc, legacy Serial: SMSC LPC47B272 Super IO Controller (additional: Management: Motorola MPC8248PowerPC Processor)
Supported OS: Solaris 10 x64, RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0-4.0, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, MS Windows Server 2003
(Documentation: white paper: http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x4100/arch-wp.pdf)
Best regards, Frank.