I was SUCCESSFUL installing SuSE 7.1 on DellPowerEdge1550

Thank you, Rik, for your suggestion. I used "manual" and the installation went fine. I suspect you are right about the failure to write the MBR in the first attempt; I can't remember ever being asked that. But, this time, I was asked explicitly and all went well. I was not able to use the aacraid driver; when I selected it during the installation, it errored. I remembered the RH installation used the MegaRAID, and when I selected that one, everything seemed to work well. Thank you again for helping me out. -Kevin Zembower

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"KEVIN ZEMBOWER" 04/05/01 09:10AM >>> Thank you for your suggestion. I'll try it in the next week and report back to the list.

-Kevin Zembower ----- E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, MD 21202 410-659-6139

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Dunphy Richard-rdunph01 04/05/01 03:30AM >>> I managed to install SuSE7.0 on a Poweredge here with no problems.

The trick for me was to select the "manual" method (type manual at the boot: prompt)which uses YAST, not YAST2. Once there, you can manually load modules. The one to load for the RAID controller is the AACRAID module. Also, I've noticed that since 7.0 the LILO installation screen of YAST2 always defaults to using a floppy! Your problem below sounds like it never wrote to the MBR of the disk, hence you couldn't boot. Rik

-----Original Message----- From: KEVIN ZEMBOWER [mailto:KZEMBOWER@jhuccp.org] Sent: 04 April 2001 20:56 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Anyone successful installing SuSE 7.1 on Dell PowerEdge 1550?

Has anyone successfully installed SuSE 7.1 on a Dell PowerEdge 1550? The manufacturer rates it as certified with Red Hat 7.0. I thought that this might be close enough. When I tried to install SuSE 7.1, at first it said that there were no hard disks found. Then, I used some screen to manually probe for modules, and suddenly, it found the hard disk, a RAID 5 array. I thought I was home free.

But, when I rebooted it, it couldn't run anything. Even before it got to LILO, it told me to "press F1 to reboot, press F? to do something else..."

I gave up and installed Red Hat 7.0. At one point in the Dell OpenManage Server Assistant CD directions, before I got to the Red Hat install, it had me create a kickstart diskette, then type "linux ks=floppy noprobe" at the linux boot prompt. After that, the RH install went automatically to a successful conclusion.

How come I could install RH 7.0 and not SuSE 7.1? Any ideas? I'd still like to convert this box to SuSE 7.1 before I get too far along setting it up. Can I upgrade from RH 7.0 to SuSE 7.1?

Thanks for your thoughts.

-Kevin Zembower

----- E. Kevin Zembower Unix Administrator Johns Hopkins University/Center for Communications Programs 111 Market Place, Suite 310 Baltimore, MD 21202 410-659-6139

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