Did you use the ide.disk or scsi.disk partitioning file? Or doesn't it mater...
I didn't think it did, but then I wasn't sure when things started breaking. On 3/12/07, Robin Humble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 03:28:58PM -0600, Jason Hlady wrote: > >I've gotten as far as building the client images, and have assigned > >the nodes. I'm trying to install the nodes via PXE now, and the SIS > >package works; it assigns the addresses, begins to transfer data, but > >then complains that it can't find /dev/sda (DISKS=0). I suspect this > >is because the kernel that the SIS stuff uses doesn't recognize the > >Dell PowerEdge 1950's SAS controller (at least that's what I believe > >is in there right now). > > the pe1950 sas controller works with the 'mptsas' module. if you can > modprobe that than it should work. might need mpiscsih too - not sure. > > in my case I have SAS on the front-end and SATA on backends, and the > SATA controller wasn't recognised properly by OSCAR. so I have this > OSCAR script to load up ahci (the sata driver) for the backends. > no other changes are necessary. > > ----- /var/lib/systemimager/scripts/pre-install/01all.load_sata_driver ------ > #!/bin/sh > # > > echo > echo "loading ahci sata driver" > echo > modprobe ahci > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > in your case you'd just modprobe 'mptsas' instead of 'ahci'. > does that help? > > cheers, > robin > > > > > >Does someone have the required kernel/boel_binaries compiled out > >there for a Dell PE1950? Or am I wrong about why this is failing > >here, and do I need to go back a step (this looks similar to the > >problem I've seen before where the disk controller was not recognized > >by the SIS installer minikernel)? Has anyone installed OSCAR 5.0 on > >Dell PE1950s? > > > >Cheers, > > > >Jason > >----------------------------------- > >Jason Hlady, B. Sc., M. Sc. (Chem.), Adv. Cert. (Comp. Sci.) > >Programmer/Analyst (Bioinformatics/HPC Specialist) > >U of Saskatchewan, Bioinformatics Research Laboratory (BIRL) > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (306) 966-2075 > > > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > >Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > >opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > >http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > >_______________________________________________ > >Oscar-users mailing list > >Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-users mailing list > Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
