Re: problems with dell poweredge server R140 (rack)

2010-06-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:14:29PM +0300, Eero Volotinen wrote: > > Maybe having bnx2 driver in a usb disk, and installing it when lenny > > installer ask ? > > Well, maybe. Any instructions how to put bnx2 driver on usb disk? Yes: doewnload that deb file and put it on a USB disk that is connecte

Re: problems with dell poweredge server R140 (rack) [solved]

2010-06-16 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/6/16 Justin The Cynical : > On 6/15/10 11:59 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: >> Looks like problem is on iDrac, because it is connected as scsi device. >> >> solution was: deattach iDrac after boot and fix the root device on >> grub commandline. > > There you go, Dell's virtual media stuff throwing

Re: problems with dell poweredge server R140 (rack) [solved]

2010-06-16 Thread Justin The Cynical
On 6/15/10 11:59 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > Looks like problem is on iDrac, because it is connected as scsi device. > > solution was: deattach iDrac after boot and fix the root device on > grub commandline. There you go, Dell's virtual media stuff throwing it off. For the record, USB storage (a

Re: problems with dell poweredge server R140 (rack) [solved]

2010-06-15 Thread Eero Volotinen
Looks like problem is on iDrac, because it is connected as scsi device. solution was: deattach iDrac after boot and fix the root device on grub commandline. -- Eero -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: problems with dell poweredge server R140 (rack)

2010-06-15 Thread Eero Volotinen
> I forget, but does dmesg work when the system stops on boot? > > dmesg | grep sas > dmesg | grep mega > > I think one of those two commands /should/ return the driver stanza if > it's loading. dmesg works and it says something like this: megasas: 0x1000:0x0060:0x1028:0x1f0b bus:3:slot:0:func:0

Re: problems with dell poweredge server R140 (rack)

2010-06-15 Thread Eero Volotinen
> OK, so you are using the DRAC?  Are you using the virtual media options? >  When I used them, they threw off the install as the virtual optical and > floppy are presented to the system as USB devices, which were enumerated > before the install target. Yes, I am using DRAC with virtual media beca

Re: problems with dell poweredge server R140 (rack)

2010-06-15 Thread Justin The Cynical
On 6/15/10 1:09 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: >> As for the SAS, what errors are you seeing? Do you see the megaraid-sas >> (I believe that is the correct one, depends on the chipset used on your >> particular PERC) even load? > > Server is Dell R410, so I think controller is perc 6/i *snip* >> I a

Re: problems with dell poweredge server R140 (rack)

2010-06-15 Thread Eero Volotinen
> As for the SAS, what errors are you seeing?  Do you see the megaraid-sas > (I believe that is the correct one, depends on the chipset used on your > particular PERC) even load? Server is Dell R410, so I think controller is perc 6/i > > It was a while aqo, but I installed Debian on a 2950 with a

Re: problems with dell poweredge server R140 (rack)

2010-06-15 Thread Justin The Cynical
On 6/15/10 11:50 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > I tried to install Debian Lenny on Dell Poweredge R140 with no success. > > First problem is with netword card bnx2? It is not working with > default install, but > with this workaround it works: > > -> http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ (this image support

Re: problems with dell poweredge server R140 (rack)

2010-06-15 Thread Eero Volotinen
> Maybe having bnx2 driver in a usb disk, and installing it when lenny > installer ask ? Well, maybe. Any instructions how to put bnx2 driver on usb disk? > > Maybe some other non-free firmware is needed for sas raid controller ? > > I think RHEL and Ubuntu doesn't have a kernel major than 2.6.32

Re: problems with dell poweredge server R140 (rack)

2010-06-15 Thread Javier Barroso
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > I tried to install Debian Lenny on Dell Poweredge R140 with no success. > > First problem is with netword card bnx2? It is not working with > default install, but > with this workaround it works: > > -> http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ (this im

problems with dell poweredge server R140 (rack)

2010-06-15 Thread Eero Volotinen
I tried to install Debian Lenny on Dell Poweredge R140 with no success. First problem is with netword card bnx2? It is not working with default install, but with this workaround it works: -> http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/ (this image support bnx2 from scratch) another problem is that default kern