I downloaded Peter Meuller's si320sata.iso, but it would appear that it doesn't have support for the e1000 network card, just the Intel Pro/1000, which makes sense seeing as how that's what's in the Dell PowerEdge 700 series. DHCPDISCOVERS wind up only going out on only the loopback interface...
So I d/loaded the SI-3.2.3 source, and also JGarzik's libata patch (2.4.25-libata16.patch.gz), and did the following:
Installed the libata patch in the patches/ directory at the top of the source tree as "linux.i386.libata.patch"
untar'd the linux-2.4.25.tar.bz2, and copied the config from /usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386/standard/ into src/linux-2.4.25/.config. tar&zip'd it back up into linux-2.4.25.tar.bz2
ran 'make kernel' from the top of the source tree. answered 'y' to the prompts to add SATA to the kernel.
copied /usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386/standard/* into /usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386/sata
copied the bzImage in src/linux-2.4.25/arch/i386/boot/bzImage into /usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386/sata/kernel
copied src/linux-2.4.25/.config into /usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386/sata/config
ran mkautoinstalldiskette and picked the 'sata' flavour.
booted the target machine, still won't recognize the sata drive
I get an error msg when it tries to parition the drive:
Partitioning /dev/sda Error: unable to stat /dev/sda - no such file or directory
ls'ing /dev shows that indeed there are no /dev/sda* devices present.
It would appear that the patch got recognized when building the kernel, because diff'ing the config from before and after shows the following lines have been added:
=================== CONFIG_SCSI_SATA=y # CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SVW is not set CONFIG_SCSI_ATA_PIIX=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_PROMISE=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIL=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_SIS=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VIA=y CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VITESSE=y ====================
but still the "can't stat /dev/sda" messages...
Anyone feel like helping someone who's feeling lost?
I can send the output of my 'make kernel' to any interested parties (tee'd it out for posterity); didn't want to dump a 500K attachment into the mailing list.
-- John Burk
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