Re: Debian Installation with a Redhat kernel/drivers
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 01:17:03PM +0200, Madl Alfred - Together AT wrote: Just want to inform that we have successfully installed Debian Sarge 3.1r0a (32 Bit, 64 Bit AMD64/EM64T will follow next days) on an IBM x345 with QLogic SAN adapters (no local disks) and on an IBM x460 with QLogic SAN adapters (no local disks) by using a custom kernel which was built directly from redhat 2.6.9-11 kernel sources (in order to have IBM supported driver versions). We use a custom 2.4.31 vanilla kernel + grsec patches + supported QLogic QLA2300 vendor drivers on our HS20 Blade Servers. We also have succesfully produced custom Debian NetInst install CDs which boot already (and install) the custom kernel in order to access SAN disks during the installation process and boot from SAN (again with the right kernel) during the second phase of debian installer. Our custom installer was built from the above custom kernel + sarge chroot with the 'bootcd' package. -- asg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: Debian Installation with a Redhat kernel/drivers
Hi ! Did you really succeed with bootcd ? We never managed to be able to boot from the created CD successfully...missing /dev/console...kernel panic... How did you start a standard Debian installer from a CD created with bootcd ? Or do you also have local disks in your blades ? Does IBM support your vanilly 2.4.31 kernel + patches in the case of HW/SW problems ? Did you use the downloadable (IBM certified) driver sources from qlogic website (intended for Redhat/SuSe) for building your kernel ? Did you ever try to use a standard Debian 2.6.8-2 kernel with your Broadcom Ethernet adapters in the blade center ? Whenever we tried that we had to reset the ethernet adapter of the blade center afterwards... Thanks a lot. Alfred
Re: Re: Debian Installation with a Redhat kernel/drivers
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 05:21:07PM +0200, Madl Alfred - Together AT wrote: Alfred I replied off-list before I saw this. If you want to post my off-list reply back, please do. -- asg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Installation with a Redhat kernel/drivers
Hi ! Just want to inform that we have successfully installed Debian Sarge 3.1r0a (32 Bit, 64 Bit AMD64/EM64T will follow next days) on an IBM x345 with QLogic SAN adapters (no local disks) and on an IBM x460 with QLogic SAN adapters (no local disks) by using a custom kernel which was built directly from redhat 2.6.9-11 kernel sources (in order to have IBM supported driver versions). We also have succesfully produced custom Debian NetInst install CDs which boot already (and install) the custom kernel in order to access SAN disks during the installation process and boot from SAN (again with the right kernel) during the second phase of debian installer. We will document the build process of the Redhat kernel sources for Debian (we call it blueshoe kernel :-) as well as the creation of the custom install disks with this kernel. Hope this is interesting for Debian wannabe users which struggle with branded hardware that officially just supports Redhat kernels / drivers. This way they can get the best of both worlds... Many thanks to Russell Stuart for his great tool Kern2Deb... Greetings. Alfred Madl Together Teamlösungen
Re: Debian Installation with a Redhat kernel/drivers
My friend, you are leet. On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Madl Alfred - Together AT wrote: Hi ! Just want to inform that we have successfully installed Debian Sarge 3.1r0a (32 Bit, 64 Bit AMD64/EM64T will follow next days) on an IBM x345 with QLogic SAN adapters (no local disks) and on an IBM x460 with QLogic SAN adapters (no local disks) by using a custom kernel which was built directly from redhat 2.6.9-11 kernel sources (in order to have IBM supported driver versions). We also have succesfully produced custom Debian NetInst install CDs which boot already (and install) the custom kernel in order to access SAN disks during the installation process and boot from SAN (again with the right kernel) during the second phase of debian installer. We will document the build process of the Redhat kernel sources for Debian (we call it blueshoe kernel :-) as well as the creation of the custom install disks with this kernel. Hope this is interesting for Debian wannabe users which struggle with branded hardware that officially just supports Redhat kernels / drivers. This way they can get the best of both worlds... Many thanks to Russell Stuart for his great tool Kern2Deb... Greetings. Alfred Madl Together Teamlösungen -- .''`. Arthur H. Johnson II : :' : Debian GNU/Linux Advocate `. `' AYSO Region 721 U6-G3 Coach `-adidas: All Day I Dream About Soccer
