RE: Poweredge with SAS6/ir
I replaced the module with another one for testing and will report back if
it's a hardware issue.
Ozz Lioi
Systems Administrator
Light Box Media
ozz@lightboxmedia.ca
Mobile: 778-997-1997
-----Original Message-----
From: ozz lioi [mailto:ozz@lightboxmedia.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 9:52 AM
To: 'Lennart Sorensen'
Cc: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE: Poweredge with SAS6/ir
It's a Dell PowerEdge 2950. The module is the SAS6/ir.
I have managed to get into the OS which now leaves me thinking the problem
may lie somewhere else.
I did manage that by hitting 'Utility mode' (which I even consulted with
Dell and should not happen as it is a utility by Dell) during bootup, I
will try to get a transcript of lspci info as I cannot get the machine to
connect or even to change any files as the OS seems to not respond to the
changes.
The previous OS running there was CentOS 5 (I believe, too late to check).
I did download Ubuntu to see what drivers it uses but no longer sure if it's
a driver issue.
The install does see the virtual disk, but after restarting I have to either
boot into a mangled OS without much I can do so far or watch the cursor
blink at an empty line after the remote access configuration prompt.
I think there is possibly a grub issue... Don't know!
Ozz Lioi
Systems Administrator
Light Box Media
ozz@lightboxmedia.ca
Mobile: 778-997-1997
-----Original Message-----
From: Lennart Sorensen [mailto:lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 6:57 AM
To: ozz lioi
Cc: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
Subject: 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?
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