On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 10:53:15AM +0100, Jaymix Mr wrote: > 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 This indicates you're using the sarge version of the installer. The sarge release did not include support for the qla2300, due to some unresolved concerns about its licensing at the time. Those issues have since been resolved, and qla23xx is again included in the Debian kernels; it should be possible to install etch on such a system. However, it's probably worth noting that the stock kernel driver doesn't support failover unless you use dm-multipath or md/multipath, neither of which are supported by IBM AIUI. If you specifically want to run sarge on this system rather than etch or Ubuntu, you would need a custom installer image that includes this kernel driver. Perhaps Kenshi Muto's 2.6.15-based images include it (http://kmuto.jp/b.cgi/debian/d-i-2615.htm); if not, perhaps there's a chance that qla2xxx can be re-enabled in a future sarge point release. FWIW, I'm also doing some work on a sarge-based BladeCenter install image for a client that include packages for the RDAC kernel driver, as well as the IBM-approved OEM version of the QLogic driver; it's possible that I may be able to make these publically available at some point, if there's interest. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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