On Wednesday 19 June 2002 06:27, James Ogley wrote:
Hi,
We've got a couple of Dell PowerEdge 1650's that we're installing 8.0 on, they have a hardware RAID controller, which uses the aacraid module. Attached to this are two drives in a RAID1 configuration.
When the installation starts, I select Manual and load the RAID module (as per http://www.domsch.com/linux/suse.txt) and then commence the installation.
YaST2 lists the array correctly, and shows that LILO will be installed to the MBR, I select the software we want to install, and off it goes.
At the end of installing CD1, it attempts to install LILO, but it fails with the error "Could not write the LILO boot sector" nothing else is outputted to any of the tty's
Now, I know that the way Dell set up their disks can be funny ("utility" partitions and all that), I think the idea is that you use their supplied setup CD to do OS installations, but the only Linux distro this supports is Red Hat (I tried it - it objected to the SuSE CD).
Was wondering if anyone out there had installed on a PowerEdge 1650 like this, and knew if it's OK to nuke all of Dell's cruft on the disks, or even what to tell YaST to do with LILO to get around this?
Cheers
James
I've nuked the DELL Utility partition on 2400, 2450, 2550 and everything worked fine with SuSE 7.2, 7.3, 8.0. Jason Joines Open Source = Open Minds =====================