roll your own boot disk/MegaRAID info
Hey folks,
I've got a brand spankin' new Dell PowerEdge 6100 server with the works,
four processors, 86 gigs of RAID-5 space, one gig of memory. So I'm
happy, my boss(es) want me to put Debian on it, I'm even more happy.
However, I've got a bit of a problem related to the RAID card -- to the
best of my knowledge it's an AMI MegaRAID card. Only recently has the
MegaRAID card had a driver, and that driver is quite emphatically *not* in
the main kernel source tree for either 2.0.x or 2.1.x. I have a patch of
dubious age for MegaRAID control, but am unable to get it to patch to my
kernel tree (2.0.35). I've written the patch creator asking for help.
Let's assume I do get the patch, I'm able to patch my 2.0.35 (or 2.1.125)
tree with it, and I can compile a kernel on an existing machine. How then
do I create a Debian boot disk with that custom kernel in it? I'm pretty
sure that the standard Debian boot won't work. I'd really like to slide a
new kernel into the existing Debian boot and have it work like a charm.
If anyone has any information, please let me know! Thank you in advance.
-- John F.
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