| Stephen Gran on 21 Dec 2004 12:29:17 -0000 |
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On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 11:30:01PM -0500, James Kelly said: > Trying to Install Debian Sarge via net install (via CD) on a dell power > edge 6350. The power edge has a PERC2/SC raid controller in it, with 3 > 8.5 Gig drives. I have the raid controller setup to do mirroring on two > of the drives with one as a hot spare. > > That *seems* to be set up correctly, formatted the disks, created the > array, set to RAID 1, and then initialized the logical device. > Rebooted, with the Debian cd. I then proceed to attempt to install > Debian, which works well until it tries to find the hard disk so it can > partition. It cannot. > > I understand the perc2/sc uses the megaraid module, which I loaded by > hand after the attempt to partition failed. I then attempted this step > in the install again, no change. I tried various little things I found > online, nothing seems to work. I am sort of at a loss here as to what > to do next. > > If anyone has any suggestions I would be happy to hear them. :) I think it uses megaraid2. Try googling for 'debian on a dell' - soembody has boot cd's for the installer with the right kernel modules. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Water, taken in moderation cannot hurt | | steve@lobefin.net | anybody. -- Mark Twain | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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