Hi everyone, I've got a brand-new Compaq DL380 just begging to have Debian installed on it, but I'm not having any luck so far. I hoping that someone here can offer some advice or I'm going to be heading down the RedHat road. :-(
Just to see if there were any hardware problems, I did install RedHat 6.2 on the machine. The install went perfectly and I had it up and running using the integrated RAID controller in no time. I've included the dmesg from the RedHat install below. The server is a 933 MHz PIII w/ 640 MB RAM and two 15k 18 GB SCSI disks in a straight mirroring RAID configuration. The integrated NIC is an Intel EtherExpressPro/100. My problem is that the Debian installer wants me to "Preload modules" from a floppy immediately after the keyboard is configured. I don't know how to do that. Instead, following the directions on the rescue floppy, I've tried building a custom 2.2.18 kernel on a different machine with Smart2 RAID and other drivers built into the kernel and putting that on the Debian rescue floppy instead of the stock kernel. The RAID controller and NIC are recognized, but the installer still can't find a H.D. Any advice? I'm out of ideas at this point. -Tim -- Tim Wilson | Visit Sibley online: | Check out: Henry Sibley HS | http://www.isd197.k12.mn.us/ | http://www.zope.org/ W. St. Paul, MN | | http://slashdot.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | <dtml-var pithy_quote> | http://linux.com/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:24:02 -0600 From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux version 2.2.14-5.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Tue Mar 7 21:07:39 EST 2000 relocating initrd image: initrd_start:0xc0fa0000 initrd_end:0xc0fff34a mem_start:0xc026c000 mem_end:0xe8000000 initrd_size:0x0005f34a dest:0xe7fa0000 Detected 930435860 Hz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 927.33 BogoMIPS Memory: 646600k/655360k available (1060k kernel code, 416k reserved, 6836k data, 64k init, 0k bigmem) Dentry hash table entries: 262144 (order 9, 2048k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 524288 (order 9, 2048k) Page cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 1024k) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06 Enabling extended fast FPU save and restore...done. Not enabling KNI unmasked exception support Exception 19 error handler not integrated yet Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0084 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: 00:00 [1166/0009]: Scanning peer host bridges PCI: Scanning RCC HE/LE Peer Bus Bridge 00/00 PCI: 00:01 [1166/0009]: Scanning peer host bridges PCI: Scanning RCC HE/LE Peer Bus Bridge 00/01 PCI: Device 00:00 not found by BIOS PCI: Device 00:01 not found by BIOS PCI: Device 00:78 not found by BIOS Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 524288 bhash 65536) Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured apm: BIOS not found. Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 79, VID=1166, DID=0211 PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0x2c00-0x2c07, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x2c08-0x2c0f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: CD-224E, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hda: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12 raid5: measuring checksumming speed raid5: KNI detected, trying cache-avoiding KNI checksum routine pIII_kni : 1765.173 MB/sec raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines pII_mmx : 2163.318 MB/sec p5_mmx : 2299.716 MB/sec 8regs : 1600.200 MB/sec 32regs : 910.590 MB/sec using fastest function: pIII_kni (1765.173 MB/sec) scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 Partition check: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). cpqarray: Device 1000 has been found at 0 8 Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 1.0.6) Found 1 controller(s) cpqarray: Finding drives on ida0 (Integrated Array) cpqarray ida/c0d0: blksz=512 nr_blks=35553120 cpqarray: Starting firmware's background processing ida/c0d0: ida/c0d0p1 ida/c0d0p2 < ida/c0d0p5 ida/c0d0p6 > ida/c0d0p3 autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. change_root: old root has d_count=1 Trying to unmount old root ... okay Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed Adding Swap: 526296k swap-space (priority -1) eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.18 $ 1999/12/29 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet at 0xe885d000, 00:02:A5:28:91:94, IRQ 11. Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around. Board assembly 010101-034, Physical connectors present: RJ45 Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1. General self-test: passed. Serial sub-system self-test: passed. Internal registers self-test: passed. ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).
