Debian Lenny amd64 running on Dell Poweredge R710

[Nicolas Chipaux]

Le Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 11:31:09PM +0200, Thomas Stegbauer a ecrit:
> Hello list,
> 
> i am trying to run Debian Lenny AMD64 on a new Dell Poweredge R710.
> 
> but as recognized here:
> http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2009-April/039120.html
> 
> it doesn't recognize any network-card's and the installer doesn't
> recognize an usb stick to copy the firmware files to /lib/firmware/
> 
> when continuing without network card's it only recocnize the disk's if
> the controller ist not set to Raid in bios.
> then i see two Disk's, when setting it to Raid1, no disk's are
> recognized within debian-installer.
> 
> so i am looking how did you
> run this two components?
> 
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My advice is to build a installation kernel based on 2.6.30. I was able to install and use
a Debian Lenny amd64 on a PE R710 server. You could do a netinst with your kernel if you
build all the necessary driver in the kernel.


# dmidecode | grep "Product Name: Power"
Product Name: PowerEdge R710

# cat /etc/debian_version 
5.0.1

# uname -a
Linux server 2.6.30-1-amd64-server #1 SMP Fri Jun 12 11:11:56 CEST 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux


BTW, anyone has the dellomsa 5.5.0-5 in amd64 packages from sara repository working on this
distribution ? Starting dellomsa keep starting the ipmi section of OMSA :-/


Regards.

-- 
Nicolas Chipaux
GANDI - http://www.gandi.net