It sounds like you are having the same problem that some body mentioned
earlier, and was trying to patch the default redhat install kernel for
it. I think the Dell Poweredge 2300 has the adaptec aic7890 scsi chip
on it, which is not supported by any of the current releases of the
Linux distributions, and this is why someone here is trying to patch-up
the install kernel on the redhat boot disk so it can recognize this
chip.
Sorry I don't remember the name of the guy trying to patch redhat boot
disk, but if you are listening, could you post your results please, this
seems to be of interest to a few of us.
Thanks
Good luck
robert
Jovanny Saravia wrote:
>
> Hi everybody !
> I am trying Instal Red Hat 5.0 in new servers DELL 2300
> Troubles presents with 18 Gb Hard Disk that comes in this servers.
>
> Bios recognize correctly when start up in scsi ID0 and ID1 respectively both disks.
>
> SCSI ID:0 QUANTUM QM318000TD-SCA ULTRA-LVD - Hard Disk 0
> SCSI ID:1 QUANTUM QM318000TD-SCA ULTRA-LVD - Hard Disk 1
>
> But in Red Hat installation I can't continues the installation I think is because I
>can't make partitions in hard disks.
>
> When I push INSTALL appears a window saying "Disk Setup". I have two choices for
>partitioning and setting up mount points <disk Druid> and <fdisk>.
>
> when I choose Disk Druid appears :
> "An error has ocurred - no valid drives were found on which create new filesystems.
>Please check your hardware for the cause of this problem"
>
> and when I choose fdisk says:
> "You don't have any hard drives available ! You problably forgot configure a SCSI
>controller"
>
> An finally I try with boot and root disk of slackware version
> I try fdisk but appears always :
> Unable to open /dev/sda
>
> Can you tell me how I fix this troubles?
>
> Recently I install REd Hat in servers DELL 4200 and 2200 but with 9 GB HD.
>
> And these occurs for two servers 2300 here.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jovanny Saravia
> System Administrator
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Internet Securities Chile
