SLES 10 on a PowerEdge 1600SC with CERC IDE RAID

[John Bown]

Hello everyone.  I have a PowerEdge 1600SC outfitted with an LSI
MegaRAID i4 IDE RAID card that is currently gathering dust.  It's old,
but it still works.  At any rate, there's been talk of redeploying this
machine using Linux instead of Windows.  I'd like the distribution to be
SLES 10.  However, there's a problem.

 

Whenever I try to install an evaluation version of either SLES 9 or 10,
I receive the following error - "No hard disks were found for the
installation.  Please check your hardware!".  I've tried several
different things:

 

1) Manual installation of SLES 9 per
http:www.novell.com/coolsolutions/trench/16864.html.  While this method
was successful, the same tactics did not work for SLES 10, which is the
version I'm more interested in.

2) SLES 10 Boot options: insmod=megaraid-old, insmod=megaraid,
ide=noprobe, ide=noraid.

3) A firmware update (version 6.62) for the RAID card from Dell's
website

4) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and Red Hat Linux 8 drivers, also from
Dell's website.  There are no SLES specific drivers offered.

5) I did manage to find the article below; however, it revolves around
SLES 8, not 10.

 

http://www.novell.com/support/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externa
lId=http--supportnovellcom-techcenter-psdb-72d742342eb3dbad035da40e8a7ad
52ahtml&sliceId=&dialogID=39619757&stateId=0%200%2039627170

 

What's interesting is that Ubuntu 6.06 LTS sees everything correctly
right out of the gate.  Might anyone know what I'm doing wrong?  I need
to make sure the OS works properly on this machine before I can
recommend it to my supervisors.

 

Thank you all for your time.

 

 

John

 

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John Bown

john.bown at brulant.com

 

Brulant, Inc.

www.brulant.com

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