Re: Installing on Compaq Servers

[Chris Tillman]

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...

I think so.

> ... stuff I can't help with ...

> 
> I was not able to get the boot-floppies source package to build (yet) so I 
> am not yet able to work up a patch for the dbootstrap program.

What kinds of errors are you getting during the build? Did you do make
check first, and also make distclean if you rebuild? make
distclean seems to be the only way to reset the build after someone
changes a message in dbootstrap.

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Re: Installing on Compaq Servers

[Nicolas Lopez]

  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
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