Sheer (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} sheer_panic) wrote,@ 2008-09-07 17:08:00 |
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Dell 2650, CentOS, and more than 4G of RAM
Originally published at Never been one to let the carrier drop. You can comment here or there.
For those of you who might be running into the same problem I was with using CentOS’s PAE kernel to support more than 4G of RAM - where the system would crash during the boot process - the solution is to upgrade the firmware for the RAID controller. You can find firmware for the PERC (Dell’s rebranded Adaptec RAID controller) on Dell’s web site - it requires two floppy disks and is a self-extracting archive that will write itself to the floppies. Those of you like me who haven’t been keeping floppy drives in your computers will be happy to know that a external USB floppy drive works just fine for writing the firmware.
