Installing Sarge on an HP NetServer LH4

2005-09-08 Thread marco_elen
Hello everybody, after many problems I finally could install Sarge on an HP NetServer LH4. This server has two SCSI hard disks. The following info was gathered using a Gnome tool (maybe GST) from a previous RedHat installation. Hard disks: two MegaRAID LD0 and LD1 RAID1 17365R. SCSI devices:

root on LVM

2005-08-31 Thread marco_elen
Hello everybody, I tried to convert the root to LVM using LVM10 tools (deb: lvm10) on 2.4.27 kernel (deb: kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686-smp), but after an lvmcreate_initrd and reboot I get: cramfs: wrong magic. Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 3a:00. I searched the web and the only

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-29 Thread marco_elen
Hello everybody, I finally could install Sarge on an HP NetServer LH4. (I could post a report when I'll have all the probelms solved). First I installed Woody, then I upgraded to Sarge. I also updated the kernel from 2.2.20 to kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686-smp. After some problems I could get a

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-29 Thread marco_elen
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:48:45 +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: Your CD rom is normally /dev/hdc ? When I use the old kernel, the command mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /cdrom works, but not with the new kernel. May it be a problem in the kernel, in the sense that the new kernel I installed does not have

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-29 Thread marco_elen
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:09:51 +0200, Jonathan Opperman wrote: On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:48:45 +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: Your CD rom is normally /dev/hdc ? When I use the old kernel, the command mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /cdrom works, but not with the new kernel. May it be a problem

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-29 Thread marco_elen
-- Initial Header --- On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:32:22 +0200, Jonathan Opperman wrote: Haven't worked on 2.4.x in a while, but try this: modprobe ide-cd AFAICR then Any indication that it's loading the module in: dmesg if yes then try mount /cdrom With: # modprobe ide-cd

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-29 Thread marco_elen
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 09:36:04 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] It was not clear if you were using lilo or grub but personally I prefer grub so that I can stack up a lot of kernels during testing and in cases like this. I'm using Lilo and I'm not expert with Grub, but I would like to learn

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-29 Thread marco_elen
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 09:36:04 -0600, bob wrote: [...] I would upgrade to a 2.6 kernel. Then install discover, hotplug and udev. That combination has great success detecting hardware and automatically configuring it for the system. Then I would clean /etc/modules of unneeded modules and let

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-26 Thread marco_elen
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:33:32 +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: On (25/08/05 11:27), Raquel Rice wrote: marco_elen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally after many tries and (actually unuseful) web searches I could install Debian on an HP NetServer LH4. As suggested by Raquel I simply installed

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-26 Thread marco_elen
On (25/08/05 11:27), Raquel Rice wrote: The upgrade manual suggests using aptitude dist-upgrade and doing the kernel upgrade in a separate step. After upgrading to Sarge, I later upgraded the kernel on the server to 2.4.27 and all went well. But keep your old kernel around ... just in case.

Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-25 Thread marco_elen
Hello, I can't install Sarge on a HP server (NetServer LH4) because I get an error related to Symbios SCSI: error while loading modprobe -v sym53c8xx_2. With dmesg I get this extra info: sym0: 895 rev 0x1 om pci bus 1 device 7 function 0 irq 11 sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-40, LVD, parity

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-25 Thread marco_elen
OK!!! Finally after many tries and (actually unuseful) web searches I could install Debian on an HP NetServer LH4. As suggested by Raquel I simply installed Woody booting with vanilla. I installed only the base system from the first cd. Now I have to upgrade to Sarge. Can I do it simply with

Problems instaling Sarge

2005-08-24 Thread marco_elen
Hello everybody, I'm new tothis list, though not to Debian (I'm using Woody at home since it came out, but I'm not very expert), and I'd like to install Sarge on an Hp server which currently has Red Hat (don't rememeber now which version). But I experienced some problems. Basically, while