Installing on Dell PowerEdge 1650
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 -- James Ogley, Unix Systems Administrator, Pinnacle Insurance Plc james.ogley@pinnacle.co.uk www.pinnacle.co.uk +44 (0) 20 8731 3619 Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.0) Updated GNOME RPMs for SuSE Linux: www.usr-local-bin.org *********************************************************************** CONFIDENTIALITY. This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Pinnacle Insurance Plc. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify our Helpdesk on +44 (0) 20 8207 9555. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **********************************************************************
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 12:27:50PM +0100, James Ogley wrote:
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?
I haven't tried to install SuSE on a poweredge yet, but a low tech work around for the short term might be to use a boot floppy. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Right behind you, I see the millions Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net
I actually blagged it ;-) When it came to the reboot after CD1, I let the LILO installation fail, and then booted from the CD again, loaded the aacraid module, and then selected boot installed system, which it did and of course continued the installation from CD2 onwards. When it had finished, I ran YaST and installed the kernel I wanted (it had failed to install, presumably as a result of the LILO failure), I then setup the initrd and LILO (I had to manually add the initrd line to lilo.conf) and ran lilo. For some reason, LILO was able to install itself this time! I also had to manually specify the module for eth0 in /etc/modules.conf (it's e1000 if anyone's wondering) Copied to feedback@suse.de for their information. Cheers James
I haven't tried to install SuSE on a poweredge yet, but a low tech work around for the short term might be to use a boot floppy. -- James Ogley, Unix Systems Administrator, Pinnacle Insurance Plc james.ogley@pinnacle.co.uk www.pinnacle.co.uk +44 (0) 20 8731 3619 Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.0) Updated GNOME RPMs for SuSE Linux: www.usr-local-bin.org
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Hey, On my laptop (generic model, not Dell), I couldn't get LILO to install in the MBR at all. Nothing I tried worked. Wouldn't work with RH 7.3 either. But then I tried installing RH with Grub instead, and Grub worked perfectly. Don't like or want RH anymore though, so I reinstalled SuSE, booted from a floppy, and installed Grub from the SuSE DVD. Works perfectly. :-) Really odd that Grub will install, but not LILO... It's an older model though, 300Mhz. Only use it when I do my occasional traveling for internet marketing conferences. Using SuSE 7.3 Pro, BTW. Later, Joe "Flame" Sullivan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Firechild Web Design and CGI Scripting Services http://firechild.net Secretary, World Association of Internet Marketing http://waim.org Webmaster, Amerikanska - For Americans In Sweden http://amerikanska.com Meta-editor, Open Directory Project http://dmoz.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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 =====================
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