ML150

[James McDonald]

Tim Wunder wrote:
> 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.
>>     
Once you have the new driver installed on your box. If you recompile 
your initrd (using mkinitrd) with the new driver included then the linux 
box will recognize the RAID volume from the start.

I had to use mkinitrd to recompile initrd-2.4.21-4.EL.img on a dell box 
I had so that it would recognize from boot another disk controller for 
another array on the box

The symptom was the box would boot and not see the 12 disk array but 
then I would do a modprobe <controller_drive_module_name> and all of a 
sudden I would get a heap of new partitions showing up.

>> 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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