On Friday, 22.04.2005 at 11:46 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Dave Ewart wrote: > > Does anyone have this working successfully under Debian? I guess > > I'm gonna be putting Sarge on them, really. > > Very sucessfully with kernel 2.4, *BUT* you *will* need to compile a > custom kernel. I don't know about 2.6, but chances are very high that > it will work perfectly. > > > My concern specifically relates to the RAID controllers: the systems > > I'm looking at have an Intel SRCS16 card and the specifications for > > that > > All Intel RAID controllers are supported equally well (they all look > the same for the kernel), but you *will* need to compile a kernel with > it builtin for booting the system, I guess. Thanks for your reply, Henrique: very helpful and reassuring, but it raises some questions ... Which kernel modules do these controllers use? Compiling a new kernel is not a problem. What about *installing* though, if the installation CD doesn't support the controller? > You will also need the linux version of intel's storage control > program. It is available on their site. > > Also, these servers have a LOT of firmware, so make sure to update all > firmware and the BIOS first of all, then use the Intel CD to setup the > system as if it would be an windows one, (so as to init the firmware > and configure it). Doing that using the ipmitools from scratch is > daunting at best. Do you mean you have to install Windows in order to do the firmware/BIOS setup? Dave. -- Please don't CC me on list messages! ... Dave Ewart - davee@sungate.co.uk - jabber: davee@jabber.org All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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