RHEL 3 kickstart - megaraid_sas driver

[Tom Brown]

Robert MacNutt wrote:
> Please ignore my previous posts about this (I'm still learning, but not 
> out of the woods yet)
>  
> PE-2950 w/ PERC 5i card.
> Installing RHEL 3.0 using kickstart provided by application vendor 
> (McKesson).
> Kickstart cfg file contains the following line...
>  
> device scsi megaraid2
>  
> ...and works fine on our older PE2850's w/PERC 4e/Di, but of course 
> won't work on these new servers.  I edited the file, and changed 
> megaraid2 to megaraid_sas, but the install still complains: ""unable to 
> find any devices of the type needed for this installation type"
>  
> I'm working with McKesson, on it, but have the feeling they haven't run 
> into this yet.  I'm under the gun to get 5 of these ready to roll by 
> next Wednesday, so I'm reaching for any answers I can get. 
>  
> Any help would be much-appreciated.

i guess the driver you need is not in the version of RHEL3 you are 
installing - think it ended up in u7 or u8

if that is not in the kernel then you need to install using a driver 
disk that will load during the install phase

Or of course use a more up2date source tree to install