BladeCenter HS20 problem

["Jaymix Mr" <jaymix@gmail.com>]

Good day,

I am having troubles with the installation of Debian Sarge on an IBM
BladeCenter HS20 with a SAN Boot. I am launching the following command
at the prompt :

  expert26 buslogic=iobase

The installation process fails with ide-mod, ide-probe-mod, ide-detect
and ide-floppy modules that are unable to be inserted. The problem then
fails over with partman unable to mount the devices corresponding to
the san (ie: /dev/sda & /dev/sdb).

What is (not ?) surprising is that Ubuntu Live CD 5.10 worked fine and
detected the correct modules to be loaded for the SAN to be recongnised
(qla23xx qla2xxx). Those modules aren't in the Sarge by default (I only
found qla1280 which didn't work).

I know that it is possible to install Debian with a 2.6 kernel on those
Blades. Here is the output of lsmod on Ubuntu Breezy live CD and on
Suze SLES9. If someone can help me ...

Many thanks

Module                  Size  Used by
ac                      4996  0 
aec62xx                 7168  0 
af_packet              20232  2 
agpgart                32328  1 drm
alim15x3               11020  0 
amd74xx                12828  0 
atiixp                  5648  0 
battery                 9604  0 
bitblit                 5248  1 fbcon
bluetooth              43012  4 rfcomm,l2cap
button                  6672  0 
cdrom                  33952  2 ide_cd,sr_mod
cfbcopyarea             4480  2 vga16fb,vesafb
cfbfillrect             3840  2 vga16fb,vesafb
cfbimgblt               2944  2 vga16fb,vesafb
cloop                  13152  1 
cmd64x                 10652  0 
container               4608  0 
cpufreq_conservative     6820  0 
cpufreq_ondemand        5916  0 
cpufreq_powersave       1920  0 
cpufreq_stats           5124  0 
cpufreq_userspace       4444  0 
cs5520                  4864  0 
cs5530                  5120  0 
cy82c693                4740  0 
dev_acpi               11396  0 
dm_mod                 50364  4 dm_snapshot
dm_snapshot            16028  1 
drm                    58004  2 radeon
evdev                   9088  0 
fan                     4740  0 
fbcon                  34176  72 
font                    8448  1 fbcon
freq_table              4484  1 cpufreq_stats
generic                 4224  0 
hotkey                  9508  0 
hpt34x                  5120  0 
hw_random               5268  0 
i2c_acpi_ec             5760  0 
i2c_core               19728  1 i2c_acpi_ec
ide_cd                 36996  0 
ide_core              125268  29 ide_cd,ide_disk,ide_floppy,ide_generic,pdc202xx_new,aec62xx,alim15x3,amd74xx,atiixp,cmd64x,cs5520,cs5530,cy82c693,generic,hpt34x,ns87415,opti621,pdc202xx_old,rz1000,sc1200,serverworks,siimage,sis5513,slc90e66,triflex,trm290,via82cxxx,usb_storage,piix
ide_disk               16128  0 
ide_floppy             17664  0 
ide_generic             1664  0 
ipv6                  217408  6 
isofs                  32824  1 
joydev                  9280  0 
l2cap                  22404  5 rfcomm
loop                   15752  0 
lp                     11460  0 
md                     40656  0 
mousedev               10912  1 
nls_cp437               5888  1 
ns87415                 4424  0 
opti621                 4356  0 
parport                32072  2 parport_pc,lp
parport_pc             31812  0 
pcc_acpi               11392  0 
pci_hotplug            24628  1 shpchp
pcspkr                  3652  0 
pdc202xx_new            8192  0 
pdc202xx_old           10240  0 
piix                    9476  1 
processor              23100  1 thermal
psmouse                26116  0 
qla2300               123392  0 
qla2xxx                84240  21 qla2300
radeon                 68352  1 
rfcomm                 34972  0 
rtc                    11832  0 
rz1000                  2944  0 
sc1200                  6912  0 
scsi_mod              124872  6 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,usb_storage,qla2xxx,scsi_transport_fc
scsi_transport_fc      25856  1 qla2xxx
sd_mod                 17424  8 
serverworks             8840  0 
sg                     33696  0 
shpchp                 80612  0 
siimage                11392  0 
sis5513                14472  0 
slc90e66                5248  0 
softcursor              2432  2 vga16fb,vesafb
sony_acpi               5516  0 
speedstep_lib           4228  0 
sr_mod                 15652  1 
tc1100_wmi              6916  0 
tg3                    83716  0 
thermal                13192  0 
tileblit                2560  1 fbcon
triflex                 3968  0 
trm290                  4356  0 
tsdev                   7616  0 
uhci_hcd               28048  0 
unix                   24624  560 
usbcore               104188  6 usbserial,usbkbd,usbhid,usb_storage,uhci_hcd
usbhid                 30688  0 
usbkbd                  6784  0 
usbserial              26984  0 
usb_storage            64704  1 
vesafb                  8088  0 
vga16fb                12232  1 
vgastate                8320  1 vga16fb
via82cxxx              12188  0 
video                  16004  0

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