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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