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Re: [SLE] Installing 8.2 on Dell PowerEdge 2500
- From: Michael James <Michael.James@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 10:31:47 +1100
- Message-id: <200311191031.47145.Michael.James@xxxxxxxx>
On Wednesday 19 November 2003 01:36, Trey Gruel wrote:
>
> I'm trying to install SuSE 8.2 on a Dell PowerEdge 2550 I just got. I'm
> having problems because of the PE3/Di RAID controller (made by Adaptec) it
> comes with.
>
> When I boot up off the CD and try a normal (non-manual) install, it
> reboots itself after popping up the first screen of the install.
It was a bit of a fiddling to get 8.1 onto a 2650 (rack mount) dell box.
It would report "No disks found" for lack of drivers.
> I gave up on that and tried the manual install. This is where I noticed
> that the drivers for the RAID controller were not being loaded.. I tried
> using the second modules floppy (which claims to have the driver I need),
> but it doesn't let me select the driver to load. It reads the floppy,
> says "Loading data into ramdisk (3090 kB)", then goes back to the "Kernel
> modules" menu.
Just going back to Manual Install
and loading the aacraid driver got that going for me.
Then I could do the install.
> A bit of searching on the net (yay, google!) led me to
> http://www.domsch.com/linux/ which (while a little dated) tells me I need
> the aacraid drivers to use the RAID controller (which I can't seem to
> select) and that these became part of the kernel in 2.4.17-pre7 (marked
> experimental). I took a quick look at the k_deflt-2.4.20-39 rpm on my CDs
> and it looks like, once installed, the driver will be available without
> much hassle..
But it wouldn't boot off the HD.
Kernel panic over not being able to read the root partition.
So I had to boot of the CD again, (non smp kernel)
this time loading the network driver too.
That let me configure eth0 and get to online update.
A newer version of the kernel fixed it for me.
I also had to check the parameter INITRD_MODULES
from /etc/sysconfig/kernel. Should have at least aacraid and reiserfs.
Doesn't hurt to have the network driver too...
I thought this was sorted out by the time 8.2 came out???
8.2 went on fairly easily for me.
--
Michael James michael.james@xxxxxxxx
System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040
CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166
>
> I'm trying to install SuSE 8.2 on a Dell PowerEdge 2550 I just got. I'm
> having problems because of the PE3/Di RAID controller (made by Adaptec) it
> comes with.
>
> When I boot up off the CD and try a normal (non-manual) install, it
> reboots itself after popping up the first screen of the install.
It was a bit of a fiddling to get 8.1 onto a 2650 (rack mount) dell box.
It would report "No disks found" for lack of drivers.
> I gave up on that and tried the manual install. This is where I noticed
> that the drivers for the RAID controller were not being loaded.. I tried
> using the second modules floppy (which claims to have the driver I need),
> but it doesn't let me select the driver to load. It reads the floppy,
> says "Loading data into ramdisk (3090 kB)", then goes back to the "Kernel
> modules" menu.
Just going back to Manual Install
and loading the aacraid driver got that going for me.
Then I could do the install.
> A bit of searching on the net (yay, google!) led me to
> http://www.domsch.com/linux/ which (while a little dated) tells me I need
> the aacraid drivers to use the RAID controller (which I can't seem to
> select) and that these became part of the kernel in 2.4.17-pre7 (marked
> experimental). I took a quick look at the k_deflt-2.4.20-39 rpm on my CDs
> and it looks like, once installed, the driver will be available without
> much hassle..
But it wouldn't boot off the HD.
Kernel panic over not being able to read the root partition.
So I had to boot of the CD again, (non smp kernel)
this time loading the network driver too.
That let me configure eth0 and get to online update.
A newer version of the kernel fixed it for me.
I also had to check the parameter INITRD_MODULES
from /etc/sysconfig/kernel. Should have at least aacraid and reiserfs.
Doesn't hurt to have the network driver too...
I thought this was sorted out by the time 8.2 came out???
8.2 went on fairly easily for me.
--
Michael James michael.james@xxxxxxxx
System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040
CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166
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