Re: Dell Poweredge 1300 can't boot kernel 2.0.36

[Ossama Othman <othman@cs.wustl.edu>]

Hi,

On 15 Apr, Pete Templin wrote:
 > 
 > I'm trying to set up a Poweredge 1300 (with integrated Adaptec 7890 Ultra2
 > LVD SCSI controller) on a custom kernel v2.0.36 (added support for the
 > AIC-7xxx, of course), and I get the following error messages:
[snip]
 > Any hints on getting it up and running?  I really don't want to have to
 > put RedHat (Dell's buddy in the Linux game) on this box...

You won't need to use RedHat. :-)

I've documented how I installed Debian on my Dell PowerEdge Server
6300.  The instructions are at:

	http://www.debian.org/~ossama/DELL6300

HTH,
-Ossama

(Sorry Adam.  I haven't finished putting the instructions in a form
suitable for inclusion in the Debian documentation.  I'm working on it.)

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