Ubuntu 18.04 on (Really) Old HP Proliant

[Stephen Partington]

On a whim I rolled back to my kernel from when It was last running 16.04
successfully (for some reason I thought this would not work) and the server
is up and running. Now to find out what was not included to load my disk
subsystem.

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 3:48 PM Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> weird. I currently have no issues with networking. and technically it is
> not an emulation layer. It is supposed to be an api set or something that
> runs a Linux kernel under windows natively.
>
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 2:42 PM Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:
>
>> Last time I tried WSL was with getting this laptop a few years ago.  As a
>> network guy, I sort of just sat there stunned that the frigging thing
>> couldn't network.  Why the hell would you make a linux emulation layer that
>> couldn't network?  Is this still Ballmer-hate?
>>
>> What the hell is good in this day and age without networking?  I don't
>> see how they even shipped it as a thing without network support.
>>
>> This and other major things like I said visual lag in the gui, with
>> up-to-date os, drivers, etc shipped from dell, was utter shite, and just
>> angered me.  It was graphically unusable to me.  I gave windoze a solid 2
>> weeks as a trial, just to see, and it was garbage to try and be
>> productive.  It really didn't like when I was layer on VM's in vbox, which
>> usually I have 5-8 vm's at a time running in my main system, and it fell
>> apart.
>>
>> People ask why I bother with linux.  Because windoze can't do the things
>> I do in linux, like run 10 vm's of different os's and still game on steam.
>> I've ran linux on a desktop as my main rig since 2006, as well as dealing
>> with entirely windoze enterprise worlds, so I like to think I have some
>> knowledge of this.
>>
>> -mb
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 8:44 AM Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> well microsoft has made good improvements with WSL and you can do some
>>> neat things like that
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 8:27 AM Michael Butash <michael at butash.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Upgrading to 18.04 broke like everything for me (kde, wm, graphics
>>>> drivers), it's what single-handedly drove me to arch, so ymmv.
>>>>
>>>> My experience with arch hasn't been much better of late, so take it for
>>>> what you will.  Arch updates blew up my desktop, and my laptop I'm afraid
>>>> to reboot as my last working device.  If I didn't hate windoze so much, I
>>>> might actually try it again, but it's performance on my xps15 was absolute
>>>> shite with the 4k display.  Like mouse lag randomly just to screw with me
>>>> and slow down everything working.
>>>>
>>>> -mb
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 9:13 PM Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It is most definitely 64 bit. I had 64 bit 16.04 running like a champ
>>>>> until the 18.04 upgrade was done.
>>>>>
>>>>> It also ran vmware 6.7 well also.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Dec 9, 2019, 9:02 PM Thomas Scott <mr.thomas.scott at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I know I had a legacy install on a Proliant I supported that was
>>>>>> installed upside down and burnt out it's drives after a few years
>>>>>> (surprised it lasted that long). When I came on-site to reinstall it, I
>>>>>> tried to install 16.04 since I already had the install media on me, I
>>>>>> couldn't as it had issues with the RAID array controller. I had to roll
>>>>>> back to 14.04 and then upgrade it to maintain compatibility. I had a
>>>>>> similar issue with CentOS6/7 a bout a year ago as well, also on HP servers.
>>>>>> In my experience, both times it was the RAID controller.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <https://about.me/thomas.scott?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=email_sig&utm_campaign=edit_panel&utm_content=thumb>
>>>>>> Thomas Scott
>>>>>> about.me/thomas.scott
>>>>>> <https://about.me/thomas.scott?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=email_sig&utm_campaign=edit_panel&utm_content=thumb>
>>>>>> <http://about.me/thomas.scott>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 9:47 PM Todd Cole <toddc at azloco.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I suspect it may be 32Bit computer but it should give you a i386
>>>>>>> hardware error during installation.
>>>>>>> while 18.04 is only 64 bit you can use the net install at
>>>>>>> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/bionic/
>>>>>>> it has a community supported 32 bit version available
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 12:24 PM Stephen Partington <
>>>>>>> cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have an older Proliant server I am trying to make use of at home.
>>>>>>>> The hardware is fully functional, and aside from needing some spare drive
>>>>>>>> sleds, It is ready to go.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> However, I cannot run 18.04 on the server and I suspect it is
>>>>>>>> related to changes in the kernel and I am trying to map those.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The Architecture is Dual Opteron quad-core Processors and DDR2 ECC
>>>>>>>> Registered memory. I think it is a DL 365 Gen 1 (would have to look to make
>>>>>>>> sure)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Does anyone have thoughts on how I could gracefully get this
>>>>>>>> hardware to a current kernel?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you
>>>>>>>> from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Stephen
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> --
> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>
> Stephen
>
>

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A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

Stephen
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