ML150

Tim Wunder tim
Tue Jul 3 06:28:25 PDT 2007


On Tuesday 03 July 2007 8:55:44 am Machiel Richards wrote:
> Ok I found something else that is a bit more of a concern
>
> The drivers I need for the ML150 is too new and thus SLES 9 des not have
> this included.
>
> I downloaded the drivers but here is my issue:
>
> The machine have 3 disks of which two is set up in a hardware RAID 1
>
> However as the linux drivers is not available during installation ,
> Linux does not recognize the raid setup.
>
> I've set up the server on the first disk in order to install the drivers
> but the moment the drivers are installed afterwards, linux recognizes
> the Raid config and throws away the sda partitions.
>
> How can I get the drivers to be used during the initial installation
> process?
>

(Please post using plain text and do not include disclaimers or image 
attachments, thanks.)

You could use a more current distribution of linux that has the RAID driver 
you need, or you could create a boot partiion on a non-RAID disk that would 
allow you to boot the system and load the RAID driver. I imagine there may be 
other trickery you can perform as well.

HTH, 
Tim

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