SLES10 SP1 and PERC2/SC

[Karl Podesta]

On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 08:38:20PM -0400, Chris Arnold wrote:
> > The PERC2/SC card is no longer supported by anyone, and the driver for
> > it, megaraid_legacy, receives zero attention anymore, and thus most
> > likely isn't even built in most distributions.  That and the hardware
> > itself is slow; you'll get better results all around if you simply use
> > the onboard aic7xxx SCSI controller, and if you want, software RAID.
> This was the 2nd thing i did and i get a 'failure to initialize
> catalogs" every time when connected to the on-board SCSI and the 6
> hot-swap drives. I have tried a separate SCSI card all together and
> still receive this error. I have even burnt new CD's thinking something
> was wrong with the distro discs but i got that same error with new discs.

The "failed to initialize catalogs" error is usually a problem with the 
CD/DVD - could you double check all the ISOs you're using have the same 
md5 sum as listed on the Novell site? Failing that, try a DVD instead of
the CDs or vice versa, or try a net install etc.?

Karl
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Karl Podesta
Systems Engineer, Securelinx Ltd.
http://www.securelinx.ie/