SLES10 SP1 and PERC2/SC

Chris Arnold carnold at electrichendrix.com
Thu Nov 1 21:58:02 CDT 2007


I am having trouble installing SLES10 SP1 onto a Dell poweredge 4300
server with a PERC2 RAID card. I have made all 6 drives into a RAID5 and
initialized the logical drive. Then i boot off the SLES10 SP1 CD and and
i get an error "no hard disks were found. Check hardware and try again".
I was able to install SLES9 without any problems and any other OS will
recognize the RAID5 drives. The BIOS of the PERC2 does not seem to be
the problem. I can also abort the install and try to load the megaraid
driver but this never works either.Why won't SLES10 SP1 recognize the
logical drive?
I have flashed the system BIOS and the RAID card firmware (it had 3.13 on it and now it is 3.00. I would like to put 3.13 back on the RAID card but do not see it on the dell support site). This sounds like a kernel module problem but i can not understand why SLES9 had the module and SLES10 does not. Anyway, if someone could point me to the correct suse/SLES10 drivers or tell me how to get SLES10 SP1 onto this 4300, i would be greatly appreciative.

Chris



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