Installing on a Compaq server
Hi everyone,
I've got a brand-new Compaq DL380 just begging to have Debian installed on
it, but I'm not having any luck so far. I hoping that someone here can offer
some advice or I'm going to be heading down the RedHat road. :-(
Just to see if there were any hardware problems, I did install RedHat 6.2 on
the machine. The install went perfectly and I had it up and running using
the integrated RAID controller in no time. I've included the dmesg from the
RedHat install below.
The server is a 933 MHz PIII w/ 640 MB RAM and two 15k 18 GB SCSI disks in a
straight mirroring RAID configuration. The integrated NIC is an Intel
EtherExpressPro/100.
My problem is that the Debian installer wants me to "Preload modules" from a
floppy immediately after the keyboard is configured. I don't know how to do
that. Instead, following the directions on the rescue floppy, I've tried
building a custom 2.2.18 kernel on a different machine with Smart2 RAID and
other drivers built into the kernel and putting that on the Debian rescue
floppy instead of the stock kernel. The RAID controller and NIC are
recognized, but the installer still can't find a H.D.
Any advice? I'm out of ideas at this point.
-Tim
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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:24:02 -0600
From: root <root@localhost.localdomain>
To: wilson@visi.com
Linux version 2.2.14-5.0 (root@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Tue Mar 7 21:07:39 EST 2000
relocating initrd image:
initrd_start:0xc0fa0000 initrd_end:0xc0fff34a
mem_start:0xc026c000 mem_end:0xe8000000
initrd_size:0x0005f34a dest:0xe7fa0000
Detected 930435860 Hz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 927.33 BogoMIPS
Memory: 646600k/655360k available (1060k kernel code, 416k reserved, 6836k data, 64k init, 0k bigmem)
Dentry hash table entries: 262144 (order 9, 2048k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 524288 (order 9, 2048k)
Page cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 1024k)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06
Enabling extended fast FPU save and restore...done.
Not enabling KNI unmasked exception support
Exception 19 error handler not integrated yet
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0084
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: 00:00 [1166/0009]: Scanning peer host bridges
PCI: Scanning RCC HE/LE Peer Bus Bridge 00/00
PCI: 00:01 [1166/0009]: Scanning peer host bridges
PCI: Scanning RCC HE/LE Peer Bus Bridge 00/01
PCI: Device 00:00 not found by BIOS
PCI: Device 00:01 not found by BIOS
PCI: Device 00:78 not found by BIOS
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 524288 bhash 65536)
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
apm: BIOS not found.
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 79, VID=1166, DID=0211
PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x2c00-0x2c07, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x2c08-0x2c0f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: CD-224E, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
raid5: KNI detected, trying cache-avoiding KNI checksum routine
pIII_kni : 1765.173 MB/sec
raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
pII_mmx : 2163.318 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 2299.716 MB/sec
8regs : 1600.200 MB/sec
32regs : 910.590 MB/sec
using fastest function: pIII_kni (1765.173 MB/sec)
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
Partition check:
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
cpqarray: Device 1000 has been found at 0 8
Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 1.0.6)
Found 1 controller(s)
cpqarray: Finding drives on ida0 (Integrated Array)
cpqarray ida/c0d0: blksz=512 nr_blks=35553120
cpqarray: Starting firmware's background processing
ida/c0d0: ida/c0d0p1 ida/c0d0p2 < ida/c0d0p5 ida/c0d0p6 > ida/c0d0p3
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed
Adding Swap: 526296k swap-space (priority -1)
eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html
eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.18 $ 1999/12/29 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw@msu.ru>
eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet at 0xe885d000, 00:02:A5:28:91:94, IRQ 11.
Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around.
Board assembly 010101-034, Physical connectors present: RJ45
Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
General self-test: passed.
Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
Internal registers self-test: passed.
ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).
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