Ubuntu and blade servers
At work, I wanted to set up a spare blade in a chassis to be a general catch-all server for the lab. The blade in question is a HS40 blade for the IBM BladeCenter chassis. While it’s about 2 years old, it’s a 4-socket blade with 8 cores and 16GB RAM. Not exactly something to sneeze at. The distribution I chose to use is Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server. I’ve generally had good luck with Ubuntu on the desktop, so I figured I’d give it a whirl on the server.
No go, unfortunately. For some reason, I run into a couple problems that I need to work out:
- Ubuntu doesn’t see the MegaRAID controller, and instead somehow sees the two individual drives. Looks like I need special drivers.
- It seems unhappy with memory mirroring set up, which shouldn’t even be visible.
- Finally, it installs, but then reboots and says it’s an “unsupported CPU type”
Strange, but a problem for tomorrow.
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