On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:43:21AM -0600, Hecubus wrote: > On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 03:59:21PM -0600, Hecubus wrote: > > > I've been trying to run the install for Debian potato (frozen) on > > > a Dell PowerEdge 4400, but it won't recognize the installed Dell > > > PERC2/DC (AMI MegaRAID) controller. > > > That RAID controller is not supported by Linux kernel, so compiling > > your own does not help. If you want it now, change the controller to > > PERC 2/SC, the single channel PERC is supported and works (I have it). > Just heard today: the support for that RAID controller is available from Dell, but I don't have the email I got here. It should be possible to find it at Dell web site, try the search function, perhaps the index already has this. > Yesterday, things got weirder. > > Yesterday, I booted it from the original slink release CD, which had no > difficulty recognizing the logical drive, installing upon it, and booting > from it. No, it doesn't make any sense to me why an unmodified 2.0.36 > kernel under slink had absolutely no problem with it, while 2.2.13 and > 2.2.14 under potato just sat there staring into space. > If this really is the case, I suspect you have the PERC 2/SC controller after all. Hmm, that 4400 probably comes with the SCSI160 adapter, if it is not the RAID adapter then it is some Adaptec, and those are supported in Linux. Try checking what SCSI adapters there are in your Dell and which disks are connected to what. > But I need to install Lotus Domino on this system, so I have to tempt fate > and rebuild a 2.2.x kernel so it will actually run. Oh, and it's a dual > processor P3/733 Xeon system, so I really need to be running 2.2.x. for > functional SMP. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org -- Tapio Lehtonen Tapio.Lehtonen@IKI.FI PGP public key from http://www.iki.fi/Tapio.Lehtonen
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