Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-29 Thread marco_elen
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 09:36:04 -0600, bob wrote: > [...] > I would upgrade to a 2.6 kernel. Then install discover, hotplug and > udev. That combination has great success detecting hardware and > automatically configuring it for the system. Then I would clean > /etc/modules of unneeded modules and

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-29 Thread marco_elen
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 09:36:04 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >[...] > It was not clear if you were using lilo or grub but personally I > prefer grub so that I can stack up a lot of kernels during testing and > in cases like this. I'm using Lilo and I'm not expert with Grub, but I would like to le

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-29 Thread marco_elen
-- Initial Header --- On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:32:22 +0200, Jonathan Opperman wrote: > Haven't worked on 2.4.x in a while, but try this: > > "modprobe ide-cd" AFAICR > > then > > Any indication that it's loading the module in: > > "dmesg" > > if yes then try "mount /cdrom" With: #

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-29 Thread Bob Proulx
marco_elen wrote: > I finally could install Sarge on an HP NetServer LH4. (I could post > a report when I'll have all the probelms solved). The problems you are having just seem so strange. I used to have four netservers running Debian. But have recently upgraded them to faster and newer hardwar

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-29 Thread Jonathan Opperman
On 29 Aug 2005, at 3:50 PM, marco_elen wrote: On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:09:51 +0200, Jonathan Opperman wrote: On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:48:45 +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: Your CD rom is normally /dev/hdc ? When I use the old kernel, the command mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /cdrom works, but not wi

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-29 Thread Jonathan Opperman
On 29 Aug 2005, at 3:50 PM, marco_elen wrote: On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:09:51 +0200, Jonathan Opperman wrote: On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:48:45 +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: Your CD rom is normally /dev/hdc ? When I use the old kernel, the command mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /cdrom works, but not wi

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-29 Thread marco_elen
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:09:51 +0200, Jonathan Opperman wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:48:45 +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > >> Your CD rom is normally /dev/hdc ? > > > > When I use the old kernel, the command > > mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /cdrom > > works, but not with the new kernel. > > Ma

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-29 Thread Jonathan Opperman
On 29 Aug 2005, at 2:58 PM, marco_elen wrote: On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:48:45 +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: Your CD rom is normally /dev/hdc ? When I use the old kernel, the command mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /cdrom works, but not with the new kernel. May it be a problem in the kernel, in the sen

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-29 Thread Jim Lynch
Look at the output of dmesg.  You should find what device the CD rom the kernel assigned.  On my system, these two lines are informative. hdc: CW099D ATAPI CD-R/RW, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R5002, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive Do a dmesg|grep CD  and see if you don't find somethi

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-29 Thread marco_elen
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:48:45 +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > Your CD rom is normally /dev/hdc ? When I use the old kernel, the command mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /cdrom works, but not with the new kernel. May it be a problem in the kernel, in the sense that the new kernel I installed does not have

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On (29/08/05 13:12), marco_elen wrote: > Hello everybody, > I finally could install Sarge on an HP NetServer LH4. (I could post a report > when I'll have all the probelms solved). > > First I installed Woody, then I upgraded to Sarge. > I also updated the kernel from 2.2.20 to kernel-image-2.4.27

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-29 Thread marco_elen
Hello everybody, I finally could install Sarge on an HP NetServer LH4. (I could post a report when I'll have all the probelms solved). First I installed Woody, then I upgraded to Sarge. I also updated the kernel from 2.2.20 to kernel-image-2.4.27-2-686-smp. After some problems I could get a worki

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-26 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 03:46:39PM +0200, marco_elen wrote: > Then I launched apt-get dist-upgrade. > After a few question, it apt-get finished. > Then I rebooted the machine. > And... THE SYSTEM HANGS. > It just write "LI" (maybe it starts to write LILO?) and hangs :( This is Lilo's way of tellin

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-26 Thread Raquel Rice
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 14:28:28 +0200 "marco_elen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On (25/08/05 11:27), Raquel Rice wrote: > > > > > > BTW ... I'm booting off the SCSI drive too. > > > Sorry, but I can't understand the meaning of this last sentence > (my english is not good) > I don't know if I ca

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-26 Thread Clive Menzies
On (26/08/05 15:46), marco_elen wrote: > On (25/08/05 11:27), Raquel Rice wrote: > > > The upgrade "manual" suggests using aptitude dist-upgrade and doing > > the kernel upgrade in a separate step. After upgrading to Sarge, I > > later upgraded the kernel on the server to 2.4.27 and all went well

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-26 Thread Clive Menzies
On (26/08/05 14:28), marco_elen wrote: > On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:33:32 +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > I've got an LH3 also upgraded to sarge recently (from an original woody > > install) and upgrading with aptitude worked flawlessly. I also had a > > couple of LHPro200's which I've now given away

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-26 Thread marco_elen
On (25/08/05 11:27), Raquel Rice wrote: > The upgrade "manual" suggests using aptitude dist-upgrade and doing > the kernel upgrade in a separate step. After upgrading to Sarge, I > later upgraded the kernel on the server to 2.4.27 and all went well. > But keep your old kernel around ... just in

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-26 Thread marco_elen
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:33:32 +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (25/08/05 11:27), Raquel Rice wrote: > > "marco_elen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Finally after many tries and (actually unuseful) web searches I > > > could install Debian on an HP NetServer LH4. As suggested by > > > Raquel I sim

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-25 Thread Clive Menzies
On (25/08/05 11:27), Raquel Rice wrote: > "marco_elen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Finally after many tries and (actually unuseful) web searches I > > could install Debian on an HP NetServer LH4. As suggested by > > Raquel I simply installed Woody booting with "vanilla". I > > installed only the

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-25 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 01:24:42PM +0200, marco_elen wrote: > I can't install Sarge on a HP server (NetServer LH4) because I get > an error related to Symbios SCSI: > error while loading "modprobe -v sym53c8xx_2". (snip) > I was suggested using Knoppix but I don't know how to install Debian > usin

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-25 Thread Raquel Rice
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:41:25 +0200 "marco_elen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK!!! > > Finally after many tries and (actually unuseful) web searches I > could install Debian on an HP NetServer LH4. As suggested by > Raquel I simply installed Woody booting with "vanilla". I > installed only the ba

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-25 Thread marco_elen
ini -- Initial Header --- >From : "Raquel Rice" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc : Date : Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:22:34 -0700 Subject : Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer > I don't have any help for you,

Re: Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-25 Thread Raquel Rice
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:24:42 +0200 "marco_elen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I can't install Sarge on a HP server (NetServer LH4) because I get > an error related to Symbios SCSI: error while loading "modprobe -v > sym53c8xx_2". > > With dmesg I get this extra info: > sym0: <895> rev

Can't install Sarge on an HP NetServer

2005-08-25 Thread marco_elen
Hello, I can't install Sarge on a HP server (NetServer LH4) because I get an error related to Symbios SCSI: error while loading "modprobe -v sym53c8xx_2". With dmesg I get this extra info: sym0: <895> rev 0x1 om pci bus 1 device 7 function 0 irq 11 sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-40, LVD, parity chec