Re: Debian install on RAID hardware
hey raf
I dont know that much about this kind of thing, but it looks like no one
else with more knowledge has stepped up to bat.
> >The most recent megaraid driver available for 2.2.x and 2.4.x kernels
is
> >megaraid-1.14g-ac, as found in Alan Cox's kernel 2.4.2-ac24.
that 2.4.2-ac24 is probably a kernel patch (by alan cox). If so, you
need to patch the 2.4.2 kernel source with that patch, compile it, then
load it onto the debian installer floppy and configure the debian
installer floppy to use that kernel instead of the default one.
unfortunately, I have no idea how to patch a kernel or to make a custom
installer floppy.
but surely, someone else on this list does, and perhaps this will
motivate them to speak.
jason
jason@pepas.com
jason.pepas.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rafael Hinojosa" <rhinojo@sccs.swarthmore.edu>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 10:47 PM
Subject: Debian install on RAID hardware
>
> Here I go again, one more time. This time I'm only asking a simple
> question.
>
> How does one go about installing drivers from a floppy to install
Debian
> from the CD?
>
> Booting from the CD gets us to:
>
> megaraid: v1.11 (Aug 23, 2000)
> megaraid: found 0x8086:0x1960:idx0:bus1:slot10:func1
> scsi2: found MegaRAID controller at 0xd0004008, IRQ:11
>
> [hangs]
>
> trying to boot from floppies gets us to the installer, but if we try
to
> initialize the HD or load drivers, or configure modules, we can't
because
> it says we need to to initialize the HD first. I think we got the
wrong
> floppies :-(
>
> From Matt Domsch's Linux Page:
> >
> >Drivers
> >
> >The most recent megaraid driver available for 2.2.x and 2.4.x kernels
is
> >megaraid-1.14g-ac, as found in Alan Cox's kernel 2.4.2-ac24.
> >
>
> I'm rather new at kernel hacking... Can we load this to a floppy? or
> append it to the CD to get it to recognize the HD's attached to the
RAID
> card?
>
> Any, ANY, help would be appreciated.
>
> --Raf
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Rafael A. Hinojosa rhinojo@sccs.swarthmore.edu
>
>
> ==================================================================
>
> Original Message:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm not exactly sure if this question should be posted to this list,
or to
> another more specific list. If so, do let me know.
>
> The organization I belong to just received a new Dell PowerEdge 1400
with
> the PercRAID 2/DC dual channel RAID card. Current plans are to use
this
> machine to replace an old server.
>
> This question has probably been addressed before but I'll go ahead and
> ask. We would like to know what needs to get done for Debian to see
and
> install on this machine... I've had a previous experience with a
similar
> config on a seperate Dell server with RedHat (in fact very similar).
The
> solution there was to use RH7 or a 2.4 kernel. Where would I get a
Debian
> install disk that ran 2.4?
>
> We've already scoured the web for information pertaining to the
install
> phase. In fact, we were able to download driver disks to successfully
see
> the RAID card during boot. Before that, the machine just hung while
> probing the card.
>
> Once we were able to get to the installer screen, the other problem we
ran
> into came during partitioning. The installer didn't even see a disk.
I'm
> not quite sure what we are missing. My guess is that we would have to
> partition the logical RAID volume to be recognized by the installer.
I
> haven't had the time to search through /dev or dmesg to see if a
device
> comes up. I'm guessing that I could try doing it that way, finding
the
> device and then trying to initiallize the drive from a console shell
after
> the installer has come up... Yes?
>
> My other approach is to find a spare disk, insert it into the machine
and
> attempt to install on a non-RAID volume. This brings me to the
question,
> can Debian be installed on a RAID volume?
>
> If anyone has had any previous experience getting this card to work
under
> Debian, some advice would be appreciated.
>
> Sorry for the long-winded e-mail; Thanks,
>
> --Raf
>
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>
>
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