I'll have thas procedure at hand next monday when i'll be installing it
I'll post how it wnet.

Tank you very much for the info.



Jeff Price wrote:
> 
> balamacab wrote:
>> Hello
>> 
>> i need to install a firewall solution on a DELL POWER EDGE SERVER, but is
>> use a PERC5/i raid controller, i would like to know if endian firewall
>> have
>> the driver for such SAS RAID controller.
>> Thanks in advance.
>> 
>> Balamacab
> 
> Here is a cut and paste from another news group, it doesn't specify the 
> PERC i controller but could provide a hint if you are having problems.
> 
> 
> 
> Bugs item #1478464, was opened at 2006-04-28 17:14
> Message generated for change (Comment added) made by
> vallazza
> You can respond by visiting:
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> rge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=725139&aid=1478464
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> 
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> Category: Installer
> Group: None
> Status: Closed
> Resolution: Fixed
> Priority: 5
> Submitted By: Matthew Geiger (macgeiger)
> Assigned to: Raphael Vallazza (vallazza)
> Summary: initrd not remade with needed disk drivers
> 
> Initial Comment:
> Using EFW1.1rc8 on a Dell PowerEdge 1850 with PERC SCSI
> RAID controller.
> The installer recognizes and loads the needed megaraid
> modules to access the RAID device, but the initrd
> installed on disk doesn't include these modules. As a
> result, EFW kernel panics on boot because it can't find
> the device.
> The solution was to rebuild the initrd with mkinitrd at
> the end of the installation process. I didn't need to
> feed mkinitrd any non-standard arguments; mkinitrd
> picked up the megaraid module dependency correctly and
> built the appropriate initrd image.
> This suggests that the installer is somehow flubbing
> the mkinitrd step.
> EFW now boots fine and is working well otherwise. Many
> thanks for your effort on this.
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> 
>  >Comment By: Raphael Vallazza (vallazza)
> Date: 2006-06-18 10:07
> 
> Message:
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> efw2 re-creates the initrd images after installation, so
> this problem has been solved.
> 
> Thanks for the report.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> 
> Comment By: Raphael Lechner (xedo)
> Date: 2006-06-13 11:19
> 
> Message:
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> 
> This problem is fixed in the next relase.
> 
> Thank you
> 
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