[Sisuite-users] Smart Array 6i cciss not loading

[David . Livingstone]

I curently run Systemimager 3.0.0 on numerous HP Proliant DL380 G3's  witthout a problem. They
use e1000 nic driver and cciss(Smart Array 5i) diriver when booting from floppy. I have loaded
RH EL 3 with the latest updated.

I recently acquired newer DL380 G4 servers(Smart Array 6i and tg3 nics) and I ran into numerous problems :

1. The 3.0.0 standard boot floppy does not recognize the Smart Array 6i and therefore no disks
     are available.
2. The nics are not recognized.

I have tried the following :

1. Using Systemimager 3.4.1
    - After much effort(another story) I finally generated a boot floppy from the std boot pkg however
      once again the Smart Array 6i(cciss) was not recognized.

2. Downloaded Ole Holm Nielsen's 3.5.2 rpm's(generate for RH 4.0 and posted to this list)  and
    generated a bootable cd(no chance of floppy on this one:). Still no luck with with the
    cciss driver not loaded. The nic's however are recognized.

So the immediate question is what do I have to do to get the Smart Array 6i recognized ?
- I have subsequently loaded the machine via RH cd's(RH 3 upadte 5) and the array is
  working fine. Looked at the cciss code on RH 3 and the kernel source both cciss.c  v 2.4.52.RH2 and the latest
  v2.4.54.RH all have the 6i updates.

Other Questions :
 - I currently use local.cfg on my floppy boots : Can I use local.cfg on a bootable cd and if so how ?
 - Making a bootable floppy with 3.4.1 was a headace :
    - the si_mkautoinstalldiskette would exit with zero space on  the floppy. No mention is made in the manual on this.
      I tried :
        1. As per the suggestion in si_mkautoinstalldiskette(ie vi the code) I attemted to use /dev/fd0u1680
            - This worked for "si_mkautoinstalldiskette --floppy /dev/fd0u1680"  however on subsequent
               boot the rc script which attempts to load local.cfg does so using /dev/fd0 and it fails.
            - si_mkautoinstalldiskette -out-file ddimage   will also fail as it hardcodes to 1.44 MB and fails.
        2. Took all the comments out of lcoal.cfg and syslinux.cfg and removed message.txt altogether. This
             then just fit on fd0.

Thanks




David K Livingstone
CN Signals and Communications
10229 127 Avenue floor 2
Edmonton, AB, T5E 0B9
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