Bug#306786: Debian-Installer installation report: failed on Dell PowerEdge 2850 with Perc 4e/Di RAID with 2.6 kernel
> Output of lspci and lspci -n: not available
> Installer doesn't detect hard drives. Other distros detect hard drives,
> so no physical fault.
>
> Poking around the 'net suggests that the error is because the 2.6.8
> kernel doesn't have the required drivers for the RAID controller card
> used in the Dell PE 2850 (Perc 4e/Di, which is some LSI card, which
> requires the megaraid_mbox, megaraid_mm drivers).
Could you provide us with the output of "(lspci ; lspci -n)|sort" from
another distribution?
OF course, if neither 2.6.8 nor 2.4.27 have the required drivers, then
we're stucked as kernels are now frozen for D-I.
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