I really wish HP would get off their chairs and provide support for debian installer for all their HP proliants.
HP to expand Debian Linux support (December 04, 2003) http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/12/04/HNhpdebian_1.html They haven't done anything to support debian. They just need to make a driver disk for their systems. They say they support debian, but they don't have __ANY__ debian install disks for __ANY__ of their proliant systems on __ANY__ of their webpages. It was a bitch to recompile support for raid on the ml-330 proliant system I had. Reach archives for my silly story. Install Redhat, recompile kernel, install chroot debian...blah..blah...blah. Christopher Sharp said: > On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:11:26 +0100, Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Having said that, the ProLiant ML330 come with an ATA-RAID which is >>based on an LSI chipset (MegaIDE) which is not supported by Debian - the >>only driver available is a half GNU, half closed-source driver. >>Furthermore the drives attached to those IDE-Ports are not accessible as >>"normal" IDE devices (i.e. /dev/hda) so you basically get a machine >>without any usable IDE interface except for one which is attached to the >>CD-ROM. >>If you buy one of these machines you'll either have to use a model with >>SCSI controller or install an extra IDE-controller. > > I got this booting in a lab with the on-board ATA-RAID using a bf2.4 > kernel some > weeks ago (February). I was using an HP DL320 server. The only issue > with the > bf2.4 kernel was requiring a net module for the NIC which I managed to > succesfully extracate from the rpm and insmod. > > I'm now trying to do the same using the new debian-installer and testing > distribution but notice that there's no megaide.o module/driver in the new > three-floppy testing distribution. I've got the shim source for the > driver from > LSI but having compiled it on another 2.4.25 testing box and copied it > onto a > floppy the module is refusing to insmod on my debian-installer box. > > Before I start building a custom debian-installer rescue floppy with a > customised kernel including this module I wondered if anyone knew of a > module > floppy that might have a working LSI ATA-RAID kernel module on it. > > I can't believe I'd really need to install Woody using bf2.4 and then > upgrade > just to get an ATA-RAID driver! > > Thanks, > > C. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- --Luke CS Sysadmin, Montana State University-Bozeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
