The 1u Chassis
Well, I bought the power supply extension cable and so I
finished installing everything into the 1u chassis okay. I booted up the server
with the chassis cover off and let it run awhile. The temperature stayed around
34 degrees C. As soon as I put the cover on the chassis, however, the
temperature started to rise. When it got up to about 43 degrees, I shut it off.
The small fans I bought are moving any air hardly at all.
Add that to the fact that the cables and the RAM modules are blocking any air
flow that there is. I guess I am going have to invest in some better fans
before I can get this server up and running.
The 2u Chassis
You will note that I don’t have any DVD\CDROM drives on
these servers. Thought I’d save some money and install everything via flash
drive. I created a bootable USB flash drive with the OpenSuSE 12.2 installation image as per the
instructions on the opensuse.org website. After everything was installed and I
logged into the system, the screen would go blank. The BLACK SCREEN OF DEATH.
The monitor is showing the message “No Signal”.
Considering that the display works fine all through the
setup and displays a login prompt, but then goes blank only after I login, I
figure that it’s a video driver issue. OpenSuSE version 12.2 is at least a year
or two old, and my motherboards with their CPUs with integrated video are much
newer. So, chances are the old drivers in the 12.2 version will not work with
the latest hardware.
I downloaded the latest “.iso” version of OpenSuse (12.3)
and burned it to a bootable flash drive. I proceeded to install
OpenSuSE onto the server. Login.
WOO-HOO!! It works!!! No black screen of death.
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