Re: Debian on PowerEdge 2850, known bugs?

[Mickael Cappozzo <m.cappozzo@netunion.com>]

Thank you for this useful feedback and advice.

Regards,
Mickaël.

Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:

>    I have three 2850's running Debian Sarge myself at work.There were a
> few issues that we became aware of while working with them. The first
> was with GRUB and the RAID controller not synching fast enough for the
> GRUB installer to verify the files have been placed on the system
> without rebooting first. The second issue we ran into was with large
> partitions and using ext3 filesystems which we resolved by simply
> converting all ext3 partitions to ext2 and the memory issues surrounding
> this dissappeared. We have the 2.6 kernel installed but did have to
> manually build the 2.6.13 kernel to get the latest RAID controller for
> better reliablility so I recommend you can install with the default
> kernel but upgrade the kernel to atleast 2.6.13 for the RAID controller
> as well as I believe it contains an updated NIC card driver. As it has a
> 10/100/1000 NIC we did have to turn spanning tree "fast port" on the
> switch port in able for DHCP to operate properly.
>
>    Regards,
>    Jeremy
>
> Sinan Nalkaya wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Im using my poweredges as tftpserver and nfs server, and it may cause 
> > problems on these services whic is related to ethernet driver, i usually buy 
> > a new intel chipset nic.
> >
> > On Thursday 15 December 2005 11:58 am, Mickael Cappozzo wrote:
> >
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > I'm about to install Debian Sarge on a new Server, a Dell PowerEdge 2850
> > > with 2 Xeon processors. Before doing that, I'm looking for a list of
> > > "known bugs"... Does anyone know if such a list exists and where I can
> > > find it?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mickaël Cappozzo
> > > m.cappozzo@netunion.com
> > >   
> > >
> > >      
> >
> >
> >    
>
>
>  

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Mickaël Cappozzo
m.cappozzo@netunion.com

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