Linked by Robert Minvielle on Tue 16th Dec 2003 20:00 UTC
This is the second installment of the "Linux on the Opteron, are we ready?" article. Basically, it is a "where are we now?" article, noting that what once did work now does not, and others that did not work now do. The first article was published on OSNews almost three months ago. Since that time not too much has happened publicly in regards to the amd64 Linux situation, but a lot of people mailed to tell me that I should have checked out SuSE or the new Mandrake which was "about to be released" at that time. Also since that time I have upgraded the RAM and acquired a larger hard disk for the machine. I will give a brief rundown of the system as it stands now, what I tried to install on it, and what works.
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I've got 12 Opterons at work:
6x IBM e325 Dual 2.0ghz
6x Rioworks HDAMA Dual 1.4 & 1.8ghz Models (4xCCSI & 4x whitebox)
I've loaded MANY linux distro's with the following notes:
1. RedHat (GinGin64)
Works perfectly on e325 (Using USB->PS2 Adapters as the e325 has no PS2 ports).
Works on HDAMA, but KDE doesn't feel as "snappy" as Mandrake.
2. Mandrake (Corporate)
Works perfectly on HDAMA, but no promise SATA support (blame promise).
USB->PS2 Mouse problems (would not connect) on IBM e325. USB Mouse works fine, but tell that to your corp KVM switch...
3. Suse (Corporate)
Works beautifully on IBM e325 (IBM has fully supported drivers).
4. RedHat 8.0 (32bit)
Worked fine on HDAMA, but was slower than GINGIN64 Beta
5. Windows 2003 (32bit)
Loaded w/o problems on HDAMA (use current BIOS). Nice to see windows start in 18 seconds.
Does not load on e325. Had to load Windows 2000, and in place upgrade to 2003 (then worked fine). I assume some BIOS issue that IBM will need to address.