ok - I tried this too. But CentOS tries to find the floppy as /dev/hda which is not the device for the USB-Floppy. Dell ships one with the server because no one is integrated. So when I try to include the driver disk the installer is not able to find it. -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] Im Auftrag von Jim Perrin Gesendet: Freitag, 14. Juli 2006 13:30 An: CentOS mailing list Betreff: Re: [CentOS] Problems with installation> Does anyone knows how I can solve these problems? Is kudzu not working > correct for the first one?You need driver disks from your vendor to load the megaraid_sas module. You should be able to find them at linux.dell.com. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5720 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060714/f53f55a9/attachment-0002.bin>
On 7/14/06, Horchler, Joerg <joerg.horchler at coremedia.com> wrote:> ok - I tried this too. But CentOS tries to find the floppy as /dev/hda which > is not the device for the USB-Floppy. Dell ships one with the server because > no one is integrated. So when I try to include the driver disk the installer > is not able to find it.So put the driver disk on a local network NFS share, webserver or usb memory stick. It doesn't have to be an actual floppy disk (people still use those?). I usually toss all the drivers I'm going to need for an install at work onto a usb memory stick and let the installer pick them up from there. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell
how can I tell him where to find the drivers? the installer always tries to use /dev/hda -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] Im Auftrag von Jim Perrin Gesendet: Freitag, 14. Juli 2006 14:41 An: CentOS mailing list Betreff: Re: [CentOS] Problems with installation On 7/14/06, Horchler, Joerg <joerg.horchler at coremedia.com> wrote:> ok - I tried this too. But CentOS tries to find the floppy as /dev/hda > which is not the device for the USB-Floppy. Dell ships one with the > server because no one is integrated. So when I try to include the > driver disk the installer is not able to find it.So put the driver disk on a local network NFS share, webserver or usb memory stick. It doesn't have to be an actual floppy disk (people still use those?). I usually toss all the drivers I'm going to need for an install at work onto a usb memory stick and let the installer pick them up from there. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5720 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060714/7ae75630/attachment-0002.bin>
On 7/14/06, Horchler, Joerg <joerg.horchler at coremedia.com> wrote:> how can I tell him where to find the drivers? the installer always tries to > use /dev/hdaput dd=/path/to/drivers on the end of your entry at the installer prompt. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell
ok - I will try that -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] Im Auftrag von Jim Perrin Gesendet: Freitag, 14. Juli 2006 14:57 An: CentOS mailing list Betreff: Re: [CentOS] Problems with installation On 7/14/06, Horchler, Joerg <joerg.horchler at coremedia.com> wrote:> how can I tell him where to find the drivers? the installer always > tries to use /dev/hdaput dd=/path/to/drivers on the end of your entry at the installer prompt. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5720 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060714/c4d4dd20/attachment-0002.bin>
that doesn't work - if I linux dd=nfs:<io>:<path> the installer hangs with 'loading megaraid_sas' and no USB-device is working (so I can't see whether this is the driver included in CentOS or the driver loaded via NFS) when I try with linux expert noprobe dd=nfs:<io>:<path> I must load the network drivers by hand first but then I can not specify to load the driverdisk via NFS _and_ I'm not able to load the driver via USB-floppy/stick and linux dd=/dev/device is not working because NO usb-device is working - no usb stick - no usb floppy - no usb mouse -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] Im Auftrag von Jim Perrin Gesendet: Freitag, 14. Juli 2006 14:57 An: CentOS mailing list Betreff: Re: [CentOS] Problems with installation On 7/14/06, Horchler, Joerg <joerg.horchler at coremedia.com> wrote:> how can I tell him where to find the drivers? the installer always > tries to use /dev/hdaput dd=/path/to/drivers on the end of your entry at the installer prompt. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5720 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060714/98598b2e/attachment-0002.bin>
I'll try to install CentOS 4.3 for X86_64. Do you have an idea how I can find out which device causes the keyboard to freeze? I'm not able to watch at the consoles without input device :-( Is there a list which single devices/buses I can disable to probe for? I tried to boot with dd=nfs:<ip>:<path> too. But at the moment the installer tries to load megaraid_sas BEFORE network is reachable :-( So I think I need noprobe the device which freezes the keyboard _and_ in addition I need to find out how to noprobe for any SAS-Device (storage controllers). Does the option scsi=noprobe exists? -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] Im Auftrag von Karanbir Singh Gesendet: Samstag, 15. Juli 2006 01:58 An: CentOS mailing list Betreff: Re: [CentOS] Problems with installation Horchler, Joerg wrote:> Hi all, > > I try to install CentOS 4.3 for X64_64 on a new Dell PowerEdge 2950. I > have two problems: > > 1. > After booting from CD I pressed 'return' to start installation > (BIOS-support for USB-keyboard works). After probing the hardware my > USB-Keyboard is not working anymore. Dell removed ALL PS/2-Interfaces > so I have to use USB. When I start installation with 'linux noprobe' > the keyboard still is working and the installation starts.unfortunately, the usb support at install time is quite limited, what you might need to do is find specifically what h/w is causing the installer / keyboard to freeze up, and disable probe of that device /bus only. the noprobe, by itself, will tend to stop the installer from looking at anything - perhaps, not the desired result.> > 2. > After the installation starts it tries to load the storage drivers. In > the case for this hardware it tries to load megaraid_sas. But it can't > load the driver without an error. The installer just says:"loading > megaraid_sas" for hours and hours (the complete last night). When I startwith 'linux noprobe'> I'm able to look at another console (alt+F2) and can try 'lsmod'. The > output for megaraid_sas is 'loading' and not 'live' (again: for hours).you will need, as Jim pointed out already, the drivers from Dell for this - also, i see you have an issue with the /dev/hda instead of the /dev/fd0 coming up, one workaround for this is to convert the drivers into an iso format and burn that to CD... What Ver / Arch of CentOS are you installing here anyway ? in most cases the installer will ask for which device has the Driver Disk ( you only need to boot with linux dd ). the only time that it wont ask, is when it can only find one device which might contain the driver disk ( perhaps with the noprobe the fd0 is not being detected at all ). if you have network, DD=http://somewhere/ should work as well, from the boot line. I've not actually used one of these machines, so just sharing some ideas that might be worth trying. HTH -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5720 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060717/875f273a/attachment-0002.bin>
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:26:55AM +0200, Horchler, Joerg enlightened us:> I'll try to install CentOS 4.3 for X86_64. > > Do you have an idea how I can find out which device causes the keyboard to > freeze? I'm not able to watch at the consoles without input device :-( Is > there a list which single devices/buses I can disable to probe for? > > I tried to boot with dd=nfs:<ip>:<path> too. But at the moment the installer > tries to load megaraid_sas BEFORE network is reachable :-( So I think I need > noprobe the device which freezes the keyboard _and_ in addition I need to > find out how to noprobe for any SAS-Device (storage controllers). Does the > option scsi=noprobe exists? >You can boot with the 'nostorage' option to disable all storage controllers, then add the appropriate drivers in by hand after the driver disk is loaded. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263
step by step :-) I booted now with 'linux dd=nfs:<ip>:<path> nostorage nousb ksdevice=eth0' nostorage to disable probing for the SAS-devices and nousb to keep my keyboard working. This works nearly perfect: anaconda loads the driver disk and shows me the text of the file 'modinfo' within the devices list (LSI Logic megaraid_sas Driver ver v00.00.02.03). But when I try to load the driver I can see on the second console (alt+F2) that he can't find the kernel module. Is the installer not able to copy the contents of the disk-image into a specific directory? What is happening when anaconda is loading the disk? Is it neccessary to extract 'modules.cgz' on the driver disk first? -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] Im Auftrag von Matt Hyclak Gesendet: Montag, 17. Juli 2006 15:01 An: CentOS mailing list Betreff: Re: [CentOS] Problems with installation On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:26:55AM +0200, Horchler, Joerg enlightened us:> I'll try to install CentOS 4.3 for X86_64. > > Do you have an idea how I can find out which device causes the > keyboard to freeze? I'm not able to watch at the consoles without > input device :-( Is there a list which single devices/buses I can disableto probe for?> > I tried to boot with dd=nfs:<ip>:<path> too. But at the moment the > installer tries to load megaraid_sas BEFORE network is reachable :-( > So I think I need noprobe the device which freezes the keyboard _and_ > in addition I need to find out how to noprobe for any SAS-Device > (storage controllers). Does the option scsi=noprobe exists? >You can boot with the 'nostorage' option to disable all storage controllers, then add the appropriate drivers in by hand after the driver disk is loaded. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5720 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060718/c8e136e8/attachment-0002.bin>