Can't install FC3 on Dell PowerEdge 850 1U

[Stefan Held]

Am Montag, den 14.11.2005, 15:04 -0500 schrieb Stephane Bruno:
> Hi,
> 
> I just bought a DELL PowerEdge 850 1U server, but I cannot install FC3 
> on it. The installation program cannot detect the hard drives on the 
> system and cannot find an appropriate driver for the Gigabit Broadcom 
> Ethernet adapter either.

The same happens to me on our old HP Servers. You have a Perc2 or Perc3
Raid Controller in this machine?

If this is the case, then you ran into the same problem as i did.

You need the old megaraid driver for this box. But the FC3 install
kernel only has support for the new style driver, which indeed choosed
to left out the old hardware, cause the company who wrote it decided
that old hardware is bad.

Luckily someone has made a driver disk for the FC3 install kernel and i
own a copy of it. I'll make it available on my webserver for you.

P.s. The following released kernel did also include the Driver.
P.P.s RedHat also decided not to support this hardware in RHEL4.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138590

Look at comment 22. If you cannot download the driver there
here you will find the dd also.

http://unixkiste.org/megaraid-dd.zip 

Read the comment 22 about how to use this zip file.

> 
> Please, help
> Stéphane

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