I just installed woody ( to get to sid) on an ML350 G3 last month. I feel your pain.
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:22:46PM -0500, Loren Jordan wrote: > Hello, > > I'm not sure if this counts as a bug but here is the information I was able > to figure out. If this should be filed as a bug let me know... Probably. > I have several Compaq servers (DL380's and DL360's) that are of the G2 > generation. They have a newer raid controller (Smart Array 5i) and none of > the boot disks support this controller, not even the "compact" set. The > compact disks have worked for me before on the G1 Compaq boxes with the > "smart2" array in the past. Actually, they do, but as a module. Rather than extract the module the "proper" way I just went through the install past "Install kernel & modules" on the onboard scsi then copied the cciss.o to a floppy. I was able to then reboot on the raid card, load the module, and continue on. > on this custom kernel floppy to make it use the ram disk from boot.bin > (standard or 2.4). This almost worked except for 2 problems. The > dbootstrap program doesn't know anything about the "cciss" devices. I Yeah, that's a PITA too. > The rest of the install didn't work either as it couldn't install the > "rescue" floppy as my custom kernel floppy didn't look like a "rescue" > floppy. I didn't want to feed it the real rescue disk as it would be an > un-bootable kernel. (not able to mount the root file system,etc...) I chroot-ed into my install from the installer and built a new kernel. Second or third time around I got the kernel right ;) Any sign of linux-based tools to mangle the raid setup? Somewhere burried in the "Insight manager" maybe? - Nick Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gates' Law: Every 18 months, the speed of software halves. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]