For those who might be curious, the systems are Supermicro 6026TT-HTRF
machines with four nodes in 2U. I have three, so twelve machines in
total. The machines have X8DTT-HF+ motherboards. I actually have older
hardware than that around and still in use (all Supermicro), but oddly
some of it actually has an EFI option.
Check out this beauty that I still run.
# cat /etc/redhat-release
Fedora release 34 (Thirty Four)
# dmidecode
# dmidecode 3.2
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 2.3 present.
87 structures occupying 3232 bytes.
Table at 0x000F9920.
Handle 0xDA00, DMI type 218, 11 bytes
OEM-specific Type
Header and Data:
DA 0B 00 DA B2 00 17 00 0E 20 00
Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 20 bytes
BIOS Information
Vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
Version: A07
Release Date: 04/25/2008
Address: 0xF0000
Runtime Size: 64 kB
ROM Size: 1 MB
Characteristics:
ISA is supported
PCI is supported
PNP is supported
BIOS is upgradeable
BIOS shadowing is allowed
ESCD support is available
Boot from CD is supported
Selectable boot is supported
EDD is supported
Japanese floppy for Toshiba 1.2 MB is supported (int 13h)
5.25"/360 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
3.5"/720 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
Serial services are supported (int 14h)
Printer services are supported (int 17h)
CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h)
ACPI is supported
USB legacy is supported
LS-120 boot is supported
BIOS boot specification is supported
Function key-initiated network boot is supported
But I don't really expect Fedora Linux to support something that old. I fully understand that I may have to jump through some manual hoops to keep it running at this point. In fact, I do. I have this system customized to boot using syslinux with BLS support.