Stuart Allen said: > At 11:43 24/10/2001 +1000, Stuart Allen wrote: >>I am having trouble installing Potato on a Dell Poweredge 2450. The >>problem appears to be the Perc 2/DC RAID controller. When booting off the >>rescue floppy, the system hangs after the following three lines of output: >> >>megaraid: v1.11 (Aug 23, 2000) >>megaraid: found 0x8086 : 0x1960:idx 0:bus 0:slot 2:func 1 >>scsi2: Found MegaRAID controller at 0xe0004008, IRQ: 11 > > I have discovered that if I use an old set of boot floppies that I have had > lying around for ages, the install proceeds smoothly through to the first > reboot. I can partition the drives, install the base etc. The machine still > hangs after the above three lines when booting from the hardrive though. > Does anyone have any thoughts on why the install program can read and write > to the drives fine, but the installed system can't?
Yeah, the "new" PERCs are Adaptec cards, not AMI MegaRAIDs. When I last cared (like a year ago) the Adaptec driver was only available as a binary module for a particular RedHat kernel. I don't know what the current status of the driver is. -Peter
