On 4/23/07, Matthew Stringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 23 April 2007 13:59:36 Teodor Bruiestru wrote:
> Hi all!
> I have a problem trying to install openSuse 10.2 on a ooold DELL PowerEdge
> 2400 server. The installing process says "There are no hard disks"...
> I belive megaraid module does not suport this old raid controller (PERC
> 2/DC) anymore.
> If i try to install an old suse (SuSE 8.0) everything is ok!
> On SuSE 9.1 (i read) was a module called megaraid-old which worked with
> this card!
> Any help would be appreciated!
> Thank you!
You'll probably have to take the source for the driver on 9.1 and compile it
into a custom kernel with 10.2
When I've run into problems like this I've installed the OS on another
machine, built a custom kernel then tar'ed up the whole system. Then boot the
machine I want it on using the Suse rescue system. Use that to create all the
partitions, filesystems, boot loader etc, then copy the tarball across and
extract it. I then install the boot loader.
I then use a mkinitrd -v -f myinitrd.img --with=megaraid-old 2.6.xx.xxx to
create the RAM drive with the correct module for my hard disks.
rebooting the machine from the hard disk I'll have 10.2 on legacy hardware.
If you want to be more clever you could create a custom DVD of 10.2 with the
correct driver in and a custom kernel package, should detect your drives and
install as normal, then, depends on how often you want to do this for the
amount of work you want to put in (could just buy a current Perc5/e RAID card
instead).
Matthew
Thank You Matthew!
I'll see what i can do, seems a lot of work, though.
I'm still wondering why suse doesn't support theese card anymore.
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