On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Marc A. Donges wrote: > On Sunday, January 30, 2000 at 22:41:36 (-0700), Randolph Chung wrote: > [...] > > There have been several requests to support these popular RAID devices > > for potato boot floppies. Unfortunately, none of the current boot > > floppies developers have easy access to these systems to test on. > > > > If you have such a system, please help us test boot floppies to ensure > > that they will work. Current boot floppy snapshots are at > > http://lully.debian.org/~aph/bf-2.2.5-i386/ > [...] > > Hi! > > I recently obtained a Compaq Proliant 2000, which has a Smart Array > Controller built-in. I tested the boot floppies 2.2.4 and noted that they > did not support the controller, so I was going to find out how to build > my own boot-floppies, now luckily you already cared about it! > > I will test the boot-floppy snapshots you mentioned next friday, when I'm > back home. I will then report any problems that I encounter.
I hacked together a slink boot floppy that has the Compaq Smart Array drivers and the correct device files in /dev. The biggest problem that I had was that I had to manually partition, format, and mount the partitions on the array. Apparently dbootstrap did not recognize the array devices as devices that could be mounted and installed upon. I would be happy to dd them (rescue and driver) up and send them to anyone in a pinch that needs them. Once I got the system installed, it has worked flawlessly (knocking on wood here). Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
