Debian GNU/Linux on Dell Poweredge 2950 with PERC 5/i RAID

[Patrick Schreurs]

Hi,

On a PE1950 with sas (no raid) i tried beta 3 and a weekly
snapshot. It didn't work out of the box. But all i needed to
do is change sdb to sda in fstab and change root= from sdb1
to sda1 in grub. After that it worked perfectly.

Patrick Schreurs
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On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Tuomas Koski wrote:

> Sirs,
>
> I installed one of similar 2950s with the daily snapshot (from the 5ht of
> October) of the daily built Debian-Installer images without any problems.
>
> --
> Tuomas Koski
>
>
> > On Thu Sep 28 2006, Jason Martens <jmartens at cityofevanston.org> wrote:
> >> I'm working on installing Debian on a 2950 right now.  So far, the etch
> >> beta 3 installer detects the disks, but after I reboot into the new
> >> system, the initrd can't detect the raid controller.  The installed
> >> kernel is 2.6.16.  I need the megaraid_mbox driver right? When did that
> >> get added to the kernel.org kernels?
> >
> >   I believe that what you want is the megaraid_sas driver.  It's
> > actually in the 2.6.16 kernel, but there's a bug in the etch beta 3
> > installer that stops it being installed into the initrd (see
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=384437 for a
> > description and a workaround).  I'm also installing Debian on a 2950
> > right now; what worked well for me was the updated (and, of course,
> > unsupported!) unofficial sarge installer at
> > http://kmuto.jp/b.cgi/debian/d-i-2616.htm .
> >   I've got a working sarge system now (with a backported 2.6.16
> > kernel), but I'm getting occasional SCSI errors under heavy write load
> > -- I plan to write a separate post about that once I investigate a bit
> > more.
> >
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