ubuntu 10.4 x86_64 IBM x3400 M3

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> On 07/25/2010 05:20 PM, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
>> Richard Gliebe wrote:
>>    
>>> On 7/22/10 12:05 PM Richard Gliebe wrote:
>>>      
>>>> I don't think that it is a BIOS problem, because a FreeBSD 8.0
>>>> installation is booting.
>>>>        
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> CentOS release 5.5 (Final) X86_64 installation and booting works as it
>>> should.
>>>
>>> So I thinks, its the grub bootloader on ubuntu 10.4 (32 and 64 bit),
>>> which have problems with this hardware.
>>>      
>> So scratch that fancy bootloader called grub2 and use grub.
>>
>>    
>          How many hard drives and how old a computer? It can still be a 
> BIOS problem and sounds like one :-)
> 

Thank you Karl for your usual illogical reasonings especially since the 
OP has clearly stated things work with another distro that uses grub and 
not grub2. BTW, you do know how to google right? Anyway, just FYI, the 
X3400 M2 was introduced last year.

I wonder how much the X3400 M2 costs when a bit loaded. I mean, I 
recently received this 4U box that has two six-core AMD 2427 Opterons, 
multiple HT3 links, 4x4GB (Karl, that's 16GB if you have forgotten your 
multiplication tables) RAM modules, dual 2Gbit NICs onboard, a 4 port 
Gbit NIC addon card, an LSI2008 addon sas2 controller, an onboard 
LSI2008 SAS2 controller and a multipath sas backplane with 12 1TB disks 
and 24 empty hotswap trays and 2 empty internal disk bays should I want 
to enable the sata controller for non-SAS system disks. All for around 
10k USD. Oh, grub works on this no problemo.