Re: Installing Debian on PowerEdge 4300 with PERC 2 (Megaraid) controller
I would use Dell's redhat disks to get a kernel. You'll have to hack together a custom rescue disk.
Bill Cooper wrote:
> Hello,
> has anyone sucessfully installed Potato on a Dell PowerEdge 4300
> with the PERC 2/SC controller? I have tried to install it a few times
> now, first with the Potato 2.2r2 standard rescue disk, but it pauses
> indefinitely after detecting the PERC 2 (AMI) controller. Next I tried
> using the standard rescue disk with a 2.2.18 kernel rebuilt with support
> for the megaraid controller. This works up to the point where the file
> system is written to the drive when the kernel reports controller
> timeout errors and the install aborts.
> I have gone to Dell's site and AMI for further infomation, but have
> not come up with anything relevant information. If anyone has any
> pointers it would be very appreciated.
>
> PowerEdge 4300, 196 MB RAM, Dell PERC 2/SC (AMI Megaraid) Bios Revision
> U77 with 32 MB RAM, 4 4Gb drives in Raid 3 configuration.
>
> The server is down for hard drive upgrades and I just wanted to compare
> the speed of the server with Samba file sharing before Novell 4 goes
> back on it (so this is not important really)
>
> Thanks
> William
>
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