SuperMicro Super 7 X7SBi
Recently purchased a server with this motherboard and a 3Ware RAID card (true
hardware RAID: Linux sees the array as a single SCSI hard drive.)
Downloaded the latest Etch net install CD.
All seemed to be going well, until hardware detection. The installer
complained that it could not find the CD-ROM drive *from which it had just
booted* !
No joy with 32-bit Etch, nor a very recent liveCD distro I keep around for
testing (that also complained of not being able to find a CD-ROM drive).
Fortunately, I had a USB pen drive and was able to complete the installation
using that. Of course, the pen drive was detected as /dev/sda and the RAID
array was /dev/sdb, so LILO got its knickers in a twist at the next bootup
and I got unceremoniously dumped into an initramfs prompt (something that
should *never* happen). At least I was able to mount the RAID array and edit
fstab and lilo.conf, then reboot with "root=/dev/sda1" and re-run /sbin/lilo.
Next time it booted up correctly.
Still no joy with the optical drive (it's a dual-layer DVD rewriter) though!
The running kernel is 2.6.18-6-amd64, which isn't the latest. I've pulled
2.6.24.4 source from kernel.org and will give that a try when it's done
baking.
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AJS
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