Debian and Poweredge 2900

[Robert Goley]

The first question is, what type of devie is /dev/sdc?  It is a removeable 
flash drive?  If so you have an extra mount point in the /etc/fstab for it 
and it is not in the drive.  I would either remove the line for it in the 
fstab or add noauto to the options for that line.  The Install disc you used 
should be fine.  Those are the ones we use.

Robert

On Sunday 19 November 2006 15:37, Elliot Fuller wrote:
> I am trying to install Debian Sarge on a Poweredge 2900. I have a 8
> drives in a RAID 5 array. I chose Debian because I am familiar with
> Debian based distributions, and Debian Sarge seems to be the only non-
> proprietary linux distribution/version that people have been getting
> OMSA to work on. The standard Debian installer does not come with
> RAID support, or with support for the latest Broadcom ethernet
> drivers. Thus, I tried looking for Debian install images rolled with
> RAID support, etc.. The Dell Linux site seems to have a long list of
> broken links to these kinds of install images. I was very disappointed.
>
> I am interested in any information/links about Debian install images
> that work with Poweredge servers (specifically 2900 series). Any
> success stories?
>
> Also, Ubuntu (based on Debian of course) has a nicely rolled install
> image that detects most of my hardware. I would use Ubuntu, but it is
> based on the unstable version of Debian. The work done to get OMSA
> running in Debian is all done with Sarge. Might I be able to install
> Ubuntu and get OMSA working? Any success stories on this end of the
> spectrum?
>
> My work so far:
> ----------------------
> So far I have found a few promising install images from Kenshi Muto's
> site http://kmuto.jp/ under Backported d-i images archive. Browsing
> over the forums other links seem to point to this site. After trying
> several images, the 801 build's install came through fairly clean,
> but not without a few hiccups. [An incredibly long pause after
> formatting the 1.1TB /home partition.] However, I am still unable to
> boot into the system. I am getting an error with SCSI (of course).
>
> My error on boot up.
> --------------
> ....
> drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
> 	Vendor: Generic    Model: Flash HS-COMBO Rev: 4.44
> 	Type: Driect-Access      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
> sd 1:0:0:1: Attached scsi removable disc sdc
>
> "Then a very long pause..."
>
> Done.
> ALERT!  /dev/sdc1 does not exist.. Dropping to a shell!
> ----------------
>
> If anyone has an idea of my specific problem, that would be great. I
> thought Grub might be mapping the drive wrong, so I went in with
> Knoppix and tried to to experiment with some changes. No luck yet.
> Shouldn't I be dealing with a RAID device as opposed to sdc1 anyways?
>
> Thanks for your time!
>
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