Re: Intel E7230 + ICH7
Ok a lot of trying and digging and I managed to solve it myself :).
After my message, I tried using etch beta 2 and sid images to no
avail. I found a piece about booting from Knoppix and then
debootstrap here:
http://compsoc.tardis.ed.ac.uk/DebianSargeOnDellPowerEdgeSC430
This partially worked but the system would lock while booting linux
and it wasn't AMD64/EMT64.
Finally I found a page that had an iso with a 2.6.15 kernel and
modules for the E7230 chipset here:
http://kmuto.jp/b.cgi/debian/d-i-2615-amd64.htm
The author provides an apt-get source for a few vital packages for
the initial setup. It booted the image, detected disks and NICs,
partitioned and later installed the base system from traditional
repositories.
The one trouble I had was that it installed grub and fstab pointing
to /dev/hda instead of to /dev/sda. After fixing these minor errors,
everything appears to be OK.
On Apr 10, 2006, at 7:11 PM, Nicholas P. Mueller wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to setup Debian AMD64 on a Supermicro SuperServer 5015M-
MF. I am having a bit of trouble as I cannot get the 3.1r0a net
install cd to recognize the disks. I had found a thread in the
mailing lists about this particular server's chipset, the E7230 +
ICH7 but they didn't completely answer my questions:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2005/11/msg00595.html
I had also tried Len Sorensen's installer image and it couldn't
detect the USB CDROM I was using to perform the install. When I
connected an IDE CDROM, it asked for language and keyboard setup
and then seemed to lock (I left it running for five minutes on a
blue screen but nothing seemed to be happening).
I would like to use this server in a production environment. Is
there a way to use a more recent kernel with modules for this
hardware with sarge? Or must I use etch or even sid? Can I start
with etch or sid, install only a very basic system and then change
my apt sources to stable and be ok?
Thanks,
Nicholas P. Mueller
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