Tony Ellis wrote:

IMPI is very useful - see, for example, Here for software and a desciption... It has been around since about 2001 - ipmitool.x86_64 version 1.8.18-7.el7 is available from clearos-centos as is OpenIPMI-modalias-2.0.23-2.el7.x86_64.

Might be worthwhile doing a quick simple install of the current CentOS Version 7 - if that works OK, then it is something about ClearOS that is tripping you up... but read below first.

ASpeed is not just a chipset - it is a SoC - a complete ARM processor system that runs independently of the main processor, usually with its own NIC for remote access, which monitors the main system, performs a number of useful functions such as powering up the main system, remote installing an OS on the main system, monitoring the main system health such as temperature, fans etc. Very useful for enterprise administrators to control systems all over the world from a central location. The graphics in the SoC is very basic - 2D only. ASpeed have a driver to get the best from the graphics for some OS... Intel also supplies a special graphics driver for its server boards when using Redhat V7 - see Here for an older (v7.3) sample giving an idea of the requirements...

Note also that some servers may require setting certain kernel parameters eg "acpi=force" or black-listing a driver...

Sorry - cannot be of much more help. I have been retired now for over 5 years and no longer "in the game". However, if you want to run server hardware and use all its fuctions, you probably need to be a "server" admininstator

when the integrated VGA on the CPU is used

Tony Ellis wrote:

Simply mentioned the Intel case to prompt you to see if MSI had similar requirements for your "222" board (CSM-C222-89?)... Just did a search and all the links to the detailed information about this board on the MSI site. None worked (404) - old discontinued board? Worth contacting MSI support? Maybe you already have...

ASpeed have a 'ASPEED Graphics Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris Package' available - maybe worth investigating if ClearOS is using the ASpeed SoC in the ClearOS distribution... What graphics driver is ClearOS loading? This may provide the clue as to which Graphics ClearOS is using.

when the integrated VGA on the CPU is used

Technically with the Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 series processors the VGA graphics is provided by the Intel "222" PCH which is part of the two-chip package. Follow several CentOS forums - and never seen this type of graphics problem mentioned within those forums...Good Luck...

Tony Ellis wrote:

Drew, would have thought the output of "lsmod" would have provided a clue...
Using it on the systems here shows a mixture of nouveau, i915 and radeon
Incidentally, what board are you now using for the server - if you don't mind me asking...

Edit: There are some nice utilities around to provide this and more information if you take the time to install the required utilities.. e.g. HW Probe
An example of one of the systems here Linux Workstation - shows an i915 under devices...

cat scripts/clearos/install.ks 





################################################

# MAIN Process 

################################################

#version=.001

# System authorization information

auth --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512



# Keyboard layouts

keyboard --vckeymap=us --xlayouts='us'

# System language

lang en_US.UTF-8



# Automatically reboot when finished

reboot



# Root password

#uncomment to set to 'password'

#rootpw --iscrypted $6$VqbYdwIsrUcu74Xd$6iTnlg1ifx16wfvGyL1Q.Wkrj5BXPnfpV5/fLYeWC0tcwJ3JFscQO/TBNUL8IPFw4f.c8s.h1m6k3NEC8EAcK0

#generated with: echo 'import crypt,getpass; print crypt.crypt(getpass.getpass(), "MySuperSecretPassword")' | python -

rootpw --iscrypted $xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/



# System services

services --enabled="chronyd"

# System timezone

timezone --utc Etc/UTC

# Set Text Install

text



### ## Network options (created in pre-script)

%include /tmp/ks.network



## Volume options (created in pre-script)

%include /tmp/ks.volumes



################################################

# MAIN Process - End - Begin Phase Definitions

################################################





################################################

# Packages Process

################################################

%packages

@base

@core



## Optional packages

%include /tmp/ks.packages



%end

################################################

# Packages Process End

################################################







################################################

# Anaconda Process - mostly unused for now

################################################

%anaconda

%end

################################################

# Anaconda Process End

################################################





%pre --interpreter=/bin/bash



## Ensure files exist

touch /tmp/ks.network /tmp/ks.packages /tmp/ks.volumes



## Remove Ubuntu Core or previous ClearOS partitions

parted /dev/mmcblk0 rm 4

parted /dev/mmcblk0 rm 3

parted /dev/mmcblk0 rm 2



## Set flags and variables used in rest of pre script

NICS=( $(ls -d /sys/class/net/[ep]* | sed -e 's,.*/,,g' | sort) )

if grep -q '\bpreserve\b'  /proc/cmdline; then preserve=true;  else preserve=false;  fi



# Dell IoT

rm -rf /tmp/ks.volumes

touch /tmp/ks.volumes

echo "ignoredisk --drives=mmcblk0boot0,mmcblk0boot1,mmcblk0rpmb" > /tmp/ks.volumes

cat << __EOF__ >> /tmp/ks.volumes

zerombr

bootloader --location=mbr --boot-drive=mmcblk0 --driveorder=mmcblk0

clearpart --linux

part /boot/utilities --fstype="ext4" --onpart=mmcblk0p1 --noformat --label=ESP

part /boot/efi --size=64 --fstype="efi" --ondisk=mmcblk0 --fsoptions="umask=0077,shortname=winnt" --label=system-boot

part swap --size=2048 --ondisk=mmcblk0

part / --fstype=ext4 --size=22000 --grow --ondisk=mmcblk0

__EOF__



serialnumber=$(dmidecode | sed -n -e '/System Information/,$p' | sed -e '/^$/,$d' | grep "Serial Number: " | awk '{ print $3 }') 

if [ "${serialnumber}" = "" ]; then installhostname=${serialnumber}; fi

[[ $installhostname =~ ^[a-z][A-Z][0-9]+$ ]] && true || installhostname=system





if [ ${#NICS[@]} -gt 1 ]

then

    cat << __EOF__ >> /tmp/ks.network

network --onboot yes --device p4p1 --bootproto dhcp 

network --onboot yes --device p4p2 --bootproto static --ip 172.22.23.1 --netmask 255.255.255.0 --hostname ${installhostname}.domain.lan

__EOF__

else

    cat << __EOF__ >> /tmp/ks.network

network --onboot yes --device p4p1 --bootproto dhcp

__EOF__

fi

if [ ${#NICS[0]}="wwp0s20u3" ]

then

    cat << __EOF__ >> /tmp/ks.network

network --onboot no --device wwp0s20u3 --bootproto dhcp

__EOF__







%end





################################################

# Post-install processes

################################################

%post --interpreter=/bin/bash



## Set flags and variables used in rest of post script

NICS=( $(ls -d /sys/class/net/[e*|p\d+p*] | sed -e 's,.*/,,g' | sort) )

distname=$(awk '{ print $1 }' /etc/system-release | sed 's,\([a-z]\)OS$,\1BOX,')



## Setup bind mounts for centralized data support

#cat << __EOF__ >> /etc/fstab

#

#/store/data0/live/server1/home                  /home                   none bind,rw 0 0

#/store/data0/live/server1/imap                  /var/spool/imap         none bind,rw 0 0

#/store/data0/live/server1/mysql                 /var/lib/mysql          none bind,rw 0 0

#/store/data0/live/server1/root-support          /root/support           none bind,rw 0 0

#/store/data0/live/server1/samba-drivers         /var/samba/drivers      none bind,rw 0 0

#/store/data0/live/server1/samba-netlogon        /var/samba/netlogon     none bind,rw 0 0

#/store/data0/live/server1/samba-profiles        /var/samba/profiles     none bind,rw 0 0

#/store/data0/live/server1/shares                /var/flexshare/shares   none bind,rw 0 0

#/store/data0/live/server1/www-cgi-bin           /var/www/cgi-bin        none bind,rw 0 0

#/store/data0/live/server1/www-default           /var/www/html           none bind,rw 0 0

#/store/data0/live/server1/www-virtual           /var/www/virtual        none bind,rw 0 0

#__EOF__



## Create root support directory

mkdir /root/support

chown root:root /root/support

chmod 750 /root/support



## Create samba directories (if necessary)

#if [ -d /var/samba ]; then

#    mkdir -p /var/samba/{drivers,netlogon,profiles}

#    chown 302:1000513 /var/samba/{drivers,netlogon,profiles}

#    chmod 2755 /var/samba/{drivers,netlogon,profiles}

#    chmod g+w /var/samba/profiles

#fi



## Create and fix up owner/permissions on bind mounts

#grep '^/store/.*bind' /etc/fstab | while read dest src junk

#do

#    if [ -d $src ]; then

#        mkdir -p $dest

#        chown --reference=$src $dest

#        chmod --reference=$src $dest

#    elif [ -d $dest ]; then

#        mkdir -p $src

#        chown --reference=$dest $src

#        chmod --reference=$dest $src

#    else

#        sed -i -e "s,^${dest},#delete,;/#delete/d" \

#            /etc/fstab

#    fi

#done



## Correct domain name in dnsmasq

sed -i -e 's/^domain=.*/domain=domain.lan/' \

    /etc/dnsmasq.conf



## Add nameservers for dns resolution

cat << __EOF__ >> /etc/resolv.conf

nameserver 8.8.8.8

nameserver 8.8.4.4

__EOF__



## make sure dhcp doesn't wipe out dns settings

sed -i -e '$aPEERDNS=no' \

    /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-${NICS[0]}



if [ ${#NICS[@]} -gt 1 ]; then

    ## Create management dhcp range

    cat << __EOF__ > /etc/dnsmasq.d/dhcp.conf

dhcp-option=p4p2,1,255.255.255.0

dhcp-option=p4p2,28,172.22.23.255

dhcp-option=p4p2,3,172.22.23.1

dhcp-option=p4p2,6,172.22.23.1

dhcp-range=p4p2,172.22.23.100,172.22.23.254,12h

read-ethers

__EOF__

fi



## Fixup gateway

[[ $(grep -m1 GATEWAYDEV /etc/sysconfig/network) =~ \"wwp[0-9a-z]+\"$ ]] && { NICNAME=$(grep -m1 GATEWAYDEV /etc/sysconfig/network | awk -F\" '{ print $2 }'); sed -i "s/$NICNAME/p4p1/g" /etc/sysconfig/network; }  

# "



[[ $(grep -m1 EXTIF /etc/clearos/network.conf) =~ wwp[0-9a-z]+ && ! $(grep -m1 EXTIF /etc/clearos/network.conf) =~ p4p1 ]] && { EXTNAME=$(grep -m1 EXTIF /etc/clearos/network.conf | awk -F\" '{ print $2 }'); sed -i "s/$EXTNAME/p4p1 $EXTNAME/g" /etc/clearos/network.conf; }

# "



## Populate SSH keys and other files from image

mkdir -p /mnt/installmount

mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/installmount



while read entry; do

  file=$(echo ${entry} | awk -F, '{ print $1 }')

  fileperm=$(echo ${entry} | awk -F, '{ print $2 }')

  dir=$(echo ${entry} | awk -F, '{ print $3 }')

  dirperm=$(echo ${entry} | awk -F, '{ print $4 }')

  mkdir -p ${dir} && chmod ${dirperm} ${dir} && cp /mnt/installmount/files/image/${file} ${dir} && chmod ${fileperm} ${dir}/${file}

done </mnt/installmount/files/MANIFEST

sync

umount /mnt/installmount

rmdir /mnt/installmount



#Cleanup



%end

#

###############################################

# Post-install processes - Finished

################################################