Hello All, I have a Compaq Proliant 6500 (P11) Server in my lab, and I have spent the last 3 days trying valiantly to install Debian 2.2 on it, with no success. Here is the set of steps that I have taken: - Perform Compaq System Erase with SmartStart utilities - Configure SMART 3200 Array Controller for RAID-0 - Boot to Debian 2.2 CD #1 (using kernel 2.2.17) - Put cpqarray module built from 2.2.17 sources on a floppy - Execute a shell from dbootstrap, mount floppy, install module - Proceed Normally with Installation Everything appears to go fine, until I finally reboot the system. Then I am told the following: request_module[block-major-72]: root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot open root device 48:02 I installed the root filesystem on the second partition in the RAID Array (/dev/ida/c0d0p2), since the first partition is the compaq system utilities. When I booted back to the rescue CD, and looked at the device in question, it lists the major/minor number for /dev/ida/c0d0p2 as 72,2. I am baffled as to why it can't find the root filesystem, and also as to why it tries to find the root device at 48:02 when I see the major/minor number as 72,2 from the rescue CD. I have the latest BIOS and SMART 3200 Firmware installed on the server. I have looked exhaustively at Compaq's support pages for Linux, and they have not helped. Any help or advice on this would be greatly appreciated. Please CC me as I am not currently subscribed to the list. Thanks a lot, Steve -- Steve Beitzel IIT Computer Science Systems Administrator, Information Retrieval Laboratory
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