--- Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 17 March 2006 18:03, John M. Gabriele wrote: > > When I boot a Dell PowerEdge 2850 with the current Sarge install > > CD, if I type "linux26" at the boot prompt, the installer won't > > autodetect the RAID controller (Dell PERC 4e/Di). Funny thing > > though; if I just hit Enter and boot the 2.4 kernel, the RAID > > gets detected. > > Is that SATA? If so, please try an Etch Beta 2 CD instead [1]. > The Sarge 2.6 kernel had very limited support for SATA. No. Sorry for lack of details. This is a hardware RAID SCSI setup. I think the RAID/SCSI controller is embedded on the motherboard (this is a Dell rackmount server -- a common high-end one aimed at small businesses I think). This machine has 6 SCSI drives in it. They make up 2 physical arrays, each making up one logical drive. > > BTW, the 'e' in 4e/Di indicates PCI Express x8, and the 'D' is > > for dual-channel (dual channels to the SCSI chipset I think). > > > [snip] > > Cheers, > FJP > > [1] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
