Blade 1000 - no hard disks detected

[Thomas Amm]

Hi,
I was trying to install Etch on my Sun Blade 1000 via netboot. Unlike the
install, I tried about a year ago, the install menu was displayed fine and
keyboard and network recognition were fast and correct - unfortunately no
hard disks were detected. I also had no luck in trying to manually load the
right driver.
This is a little odd, because previous attempts with older installers found
my two (SCSI) HDs without any problems - they were formatted and are working
flawlessly on Solaris. Obviously there are Blade 1ks running debian, so I
guess, the problem is on my side - maby somebody has got a hint for me?
Thanks,

Thomas Amm

Re: Blade 1000 - no hard disks detected

[Emanuele Rocca]

Hello Thomas,

* Thomas Amm [EMAIL PROTECTED], [2007-03-03 12:04 +0100]:
 I was trying to install Etch on my Sun Blade 1000 via netboot. Unlike the
 install, I tried about a year ago, the install menu was displayed fine and
 keyboard and network recognition were fast and correct - unfortunately no
 hard disks were detected. I also had no luck in trying to manually load
 the right driver.

That's because the installer is now using the qla2xxx module for the
Blade's controller, and that module doesn't work without a binary
firmware.

What you need to do is just switching to a console (alt+f2), wget the
qlogic firmware, install it, and re-load the qla2xxx module.

wget 
http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-qlogic_0.3_all.deb
udpkg -i firmware-qlogic_0.3_all.deb

modprobe -r qla2xxx
modprobe qla2xxx

ciao,
ema


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