Hello all .. I'm trying to get Potato (well anything) installed on a Dell PowerEdge 8450 system. We have two AMI MegaRaid controllers in it .. I'm not sure of model numbers, but I know that they are both supported by the MegaRaid driver in the linux kernel (I believe one is a 16mb single channel '467' and the other is a new 128mb dual channel .. dono the model).. We have two 18gig cheetahs on the single channel mirrored for the root/usr/swap filesystems. The dual channel has 5 drives on each channel...
The cd boots up fine (built it today, with the stock boot-floppies 2.2.5), both raid volumes are found and install works fine through formatting and activating of the swap partition... However, as soon as it mounts the raid filesystems (/ and /usr), a whole slew of e2fs errors appear on the screen (not sure the exact error, it was something about the inode-bitmap and wrong free block count). I can continue with the install but when it copies files to the hard drive I get more of those errors (It gets into a loop asking me to configure device drivers .. just keeps asking even after I install the nic drivers). I then proceeded to try installing slink. I have a cd I made a while back with a custom 2.2.12 kernel with the MegaRaid drivers compiled in (we have many poweredge's with these controllers .. so we needed a custom boot image for installing them, since slink used a 2.0 kernel w/out the driver) The slink setup doesn't even happen, the kernel panics during boot :-/ So I tried a combo .. I booted off the Potato cd for the kernel and used the root disk of slink .. I was able to format and mount the filesystem(s) fine without errors. However, it insisted on finding a rescue image called resc1440-2.2.14.bin (??) and couldn't continue past the initial kernel installation... Any ideas ? Thanks, Terry Katz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
