Re: Poweredge with SAS6/ir
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 04:57:38PM -0700, ozz lioi wrote:
> I'm having a great deal of difficulty understanding what the problem is so
> far.
>
> The situation is this:
>
> I could boot from DVD and install the OS, then it would not load.
>
> In the boot up process if I choose the F10 option (Utility Mode) then it
> boots the OS with the normal mode + single mode option.
>
> I can login to the normal option but nothing works, I cannot even start
> networking, similarly to single mode.
>
> I have tried to install Lenny AMD64 and now I will try the i386.
Driver support is almost certainly going to be identical between amd64
and i386.
It may be that your hardware simply does not work with linux right now,
or that you need a newer kernel. Lenny uses 2.6.26, and I certainly have
needed a newer kernel for many of the machines we are getting at work now.
2.6.29 seems to work on most of them.
So to some extent you can try a daily build of the debian installer to
see if it can detect the devices properly, but you would essentially
have to install unstable to get a newer kernel.
So what kind of machine is it? What model?
--
Len Sorensen
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