Re: debian on HP proliant
I really wish HP would get off their chairs and provide support for debian
installer for all their HP proliants.
HP to expand Debian Linux support (December 04, 2003)
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/12/04/HNhpdebian_1.html
They haven't done anything to support debian.
They just need to make a driver disk for their systems.
They say they support debian, but they don't have __ANY__ debian install
disks for __ANY__ of their proliant systems on __ANY__ of their webpages.
It was a bitch to recompile support for raid on the ml-330 proliant system
I had.
Reach archives for my silly story.
Install Redhat, recompile kernel, install chroot debian...blah..blah...blah.
Christopher Sharp said:
> On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:11:26 +0100, Markus Oswald <moswald@iirc.at> wrote:
>
>>Having said that, the ProLiant ML330 come with an ATA-RAID which is
>>based on an LSI chipset (MegaIDE) which is not supported by Debian - the
>>only driver available is a half GNU, half closed-source driver.
>>Furthermore the drives attached to those IDE-Ports are not accessible as
>>"normal" IDE devices (i.e. /dev/hda) so you basically get a machine
>>without any usable IDE interface except for one which is attached to the
>>CD-ROM.
>>If you buy one of these machines you'll either have to use a model with
>>SCSI controller or install an extra IDE-controller.
>
> I got this booting in a lab with the on-board ATA-RAID using a bf2.4
> kernel some
> weeks ago (February). I was using an HP DL320 server. The only issue
> with the
> bf2.4 kernel was requiring a net module for the NIC which I managed to
> succesfully extracate from the rpm and insmod.
>
> I'm now trying to do the same using the new debian-installer and testing
> distribution but notice that there's no megaide.o module/driver in the new
> three-floppy testing distribution. I've got the shim source for the
> driver from
> LSI but having compiled it on another 2.4.25 testing box and copied it
> onto a
> floppy the module is refusing to insmod on my debian-installer box.
>
> Before I start building a custom debian-installer rescue floppy with a
> customised kernel including this module I wondered if anyone knew of a
> module
> floppy that might have a working LSI ATA-RAID kernel module on it.
>
> I can't believe I'd really need to install Woody using bf2.4 and then
> upgrade
> just to get an ATA-RAID driver!
>
> Thanks,
>
> C.
>
>
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