On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 05:13:30PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Ira Abramov wrote: > > >Quoting Shachar Shemesh, from the post of Thu, 27 Jan: > > > > > >>Aaargh!!! > >> > >>A brand new IBM xSeries 346, with builtin Raid-1 controller (Serveraid). > >>The relevant kernel module is called "ips". However, for Debian Sarge, > >>neither 2.4 nor 2.6, neither 32 bit nor 64 properly detect it. > >> > >> > > > >you are but one more "victim" of the DFSG. the serveraid driver is not > >free (contains a binary bit without source) so Debian don't include it. > >if you will google a bit you will see there are several solutions: > > > > > You know what, I thought that's what it was. I don't any more. The ips > driver is there on the Sarge installation CD. It just doesn't detect the > controller, that's all. > > >a. disable the RAID and use software RAID (my choice, as the Debian kernel > >won't see the SCSI device of the RAID but it will easely see the > >underlying IDE drives when the RAID feature is turned off) > > > > > You meant SCSI, surely. In any case, while debian amd64 can do that, > debian ia32 can't seem to find the host adapter either. Weird. > > >b. choose a distro that does support it (E.G. FC3) > > > > > Now FC3 doesn't even carry ips on their installation CD. > > >c. look for or make your own debian boot media with a homemade kernel > >that supports the evil binary driver (my other choice). > > > >I once found such an iso image built around 2.4.18 though. > > > > > Once you've compiled the kernel, how do you put right modules on the CD? > I tried putting everything in, and the installer wouldn't mount the ramdisk.
What exactly did you try? You should make sure that your kernel is compatible with the one on the CD, because it loads many modules at install time from other udebs on the CD. If your kernel is compatible enough then just modify the initrd in install/ or install26/ : extract it (gunzip, mount) and add your modules under /lib/modules/* (IIRC. I don't remember those earlier stages of the initrd). Once you're done (umount, gzip) copy it back, -- Tzafrir Cohen | New signature for new address and | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | new homepage | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | Space reserved for other protocols | friend ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
