From: Eero Volotinen on
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 kernel cannot mount rootfs from perc
raid (sas) controller after boot? why? tool old kernel?

I tried this workaround (rootdelay=35) but with no success.

RHEL and UBuntu server works fine on this hardware, main reason to
install debian is that we are trying to avoid support costs from
redhat.

Any ideas how to install debian with success to this machine? I just
bought three of these ..

thanks,

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From: Javier Barroso on
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen(a)iki.fi>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 bnx2 from scratch)
>
> another problem is that default kernel cannot mount rootfs from perc
> raid (sas) controller after boot? why? tool old kernel?
>
Maybe having bnx2 driver in a usb disk, and installing it when lenny
installer ask ?

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 like kmuto
d-i

Regards,
From: Eero Volotinen on
> 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 like kmuto

Well, pure debian lenny cannot boot from sas perc. That is also bit problem.

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From: Justin The Cynical on
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 bnx2 from scratch)
>
> another problem is that default kernel cannot mount rootfs from perc
> raid (sas) controller after boot? why? tool old kernel?
>
> I tried this workaround (rootdelay=35) but with no success.
>
> RHEL and UBuntu server works fine on this hardware, main reason to
> install debian is that we are trying to avoid support costs from
> redhat.
>
> Any ideas how to install debian with success to this machine? I just
> bought three of these ..

Quick google for "lenny bnx2" revealed this:

http://packages.debian.org/lenny/firmware-bnx2

The firmware for the cards is in the non-free repository.

One way to make this work is here:

http://insanelabs.com/debian/debian-lenny-cannot-load-broadcom-nic-drivers-asking-for-firmware-bnx2-06-405fw-during-install/

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?

It was a while aqo, but I installed Debian on a 2950 with a PERC, and
after the initial install, for some %$#^ reason (believe it had to do
with the installed DRAC and it's virtual drives), /boot was showing up
on a different drive (think /dev/sda vs /dev/sdb).

I also may have had to manually roll the initrd with the megaraid driver
as well, don't quite recall.

But without some kind of error message, this is speculation.


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From: Eero Volotinen on
> 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 PERC, and
> after the initial install, for some %$#^ reason (believe it had to do
> with the installed DRAC and it's virtual drives), /boot was showing up
> on a different drive (think /dev/sda vs /dev/sdb).
>
> I also may have had to manually roll the initrd with the megaraid driver
> as well, don't quite recall.

A bit complex issue, anyway boot works on ubuntu server. Maybe this is
installer bug?

>
> But without some kind of error message, this is speculation.

Well, it just drops to busybox complaining it cannot mount rootfs.
Maybe I need to use camera/screencapture to get error messages, since
it's a bit complex to get errormessages our of drac.

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