On Friday 17 March 2006 18:03, John M. Gabriele wrote: > When I boot a Dell PowerEdge 2850 with the current Sarge install > CD, if I type "linux26" at the boot prompt, the installer won't > autodetect the RAID controller (Dell PERC 4e/Di). Funny thing > though; if I just hit Enter and boot the 2.4 kernel, the RAID > gets detected. Is that SATA? If so, please try an Etch Beta 2 CD instead [1]. The Sarge 2.6 kernel had very limited support for SATA. > BTW, the 'e' in 4e/Di indicates PCI Express x8, and the 'D' is > for dual-channel (dual channels to the SCSI chipset I think). > > Is this a bug in the Debian Installer? No, it is an issue of kernel support for your controller. Cheers, FJP [1] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
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