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ex475 with fedora 17
You need a video cable for this as it requires a bios tweak
I got fed up with trying to figure out how to install WHS2011 onto my ex475. So I bit the bullet and just installed a linux distribution.
- Pull bottom drive from your ex475
- Put drive into spare USB container
- Create a VM using VM workstation and point it at a physical disk (Advanced settings for this)
- Install Fedora 17.
- Put drive back and boot it up
A couple of things I had to do. Disable Network Manager (NM) controlling the interface.
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
UUID="b65270ab-2b79-473d-8dce-942908383ff2" NM_CONTROLLED="no" BOOTPROTO="static" DEVICE="eth0" ONBOOT="yes" IPADDR=192.168.1.20 GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0
To resolve the slow disk startup issue required tweaking a BIOS setting (need video cable).
- Change from 4P(IDE)+4S(RAID) to 4P(IDE)+4S(IDE)
The video switches to a small font I prefer to see the BIOS font and all the startup messages - /etc/sysconfig/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 KEYTABLE=us SYSFONT=True rd.lvm.lv=vg/lv_root rd.luks=0 rd.lvm.lv=vg/lv_swap LANG=en_US.UTF-8" GRUB_TERMINAL="console"
4x 1Tb drives online.
[root@cheese sysconfig]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 50G 1.7G 46G 4% / devtmpfs 930M 0 930M 0% /dev tmpfs 939M 0 939M 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 939M 1.1M 938M 1% /run /dev/mapper/vg-lv_root 50G 1.7G 46G 4% / tmpfs 939M 0 939M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs 939M 0 939M 0% /media /dev/sda1 485M 66M 394M 15% /boot /dev/mapper/vg-lv_home 864G 762G 94G 90% /u01 /dev/sdb1 917G 200M 908G 1% /u02 /dev/sdc1 917G 200M 908G 1% /u03 /dev/sdd1 917G 105G 803G 12% /u04
The ethernet NIC is working just fine at 1000Mbps
[ 7.024358] sis190: sis190 Gigabit Ethernet driver 1.4 loaded [ 7.024551] sis190 0000:00:04.0: setting latency timer to 64 [ 7.024576] sis190: 0000:00:04.0: Read MAC address from EEPROM [ 7.042027] sis190: 0000:00:04.0: Atheros PHY transceiver at address 0 [ 7.178369] sis190 0000:00:04.0: eth0: 0000:00:04.0: SiS 191 PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter at ffffc9000035c000 (IRQ : 19), 00:0a:e4:86:6b:83 [ 7.178554] sis190 0000:00:04.0: eth0: RGMII mode. [ 7.178660] sis190 0000:00:04.0: eth0: Enabling Auto-negotiation [ 18.728031] sis190 0000:00:04.0: eth0: mii ext = 0000 [ 18.734019] sis190 0000:00:04.0: eth0: mii lpa=c1e1 adv=01e1 exp=000f [ 18.738022] sis190 0000:00:04.0: eth0: link on 1000 Mbps Full Duplex mode
File transfers are significantly faster than when it was running Windows - I can sustain ~100 MiB/s