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Installation of 6.06.1 Server on Dell Poweredge 860

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Install hangs during hard disk configuration. I suspect it is not picking up the mirrored controller card but there are no errors so it is hard to know. Server Specs are:

Dell PowerEdge 860
Intel Xeon 3040 Processor
2GB RAM
160GB Mirrored Drives

I am brand new to Ubuntu and have limited experience in Linux. This is to be setup as a LAMP server and there is no documentation with Dell on issues. Has anyone else had this problem?

I have successfully loaded Server 7.04 with no problems. My developer wants the Long Term 6 distribution so I am stuck with making it work. The server was recently purchased new and is running the latest bios.

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orange (launchpad-net-orange-tree) said : 		#1

I had problems with this on a 2950 which I believe uses the same RAID card (or at least might).
My eventual solution was to run Dapper XEN guests on a 7.04 host, but we do have one machine running natively:

During the server install, before rebooting - ALT-F2 to get to the command prompt and do the following (from my notes - you may have to change 'sdg' and 'hd6' to match your setup.

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Hack to get Dapper working - do before rebooting after install finished.
chroot /target
echo "megaraid_sas">>/etc/mkinitramfs/modules
dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.15-26-amd64-server

grub-install /dev/sdg

change hd6 in /boot/grub/menu.lst to hd0
***NB you need to do this after kernel upgrades in the future***

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G'luck

--Calvin

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