Hi everyone, I've been asking around on IRC and the Debian-users list, but I haven't had any really helpful help. :-( I've posted previously that I have a brand spankin' new Compaq DL380 sitting in the rack at school just begging to have Debian installed on it. I'm apparently having trouble with the Debian installer recognizing all of the hardware. I'm hoping that someone could give me some solid ideas about what to do next. Here's what happens and what I've tried. What happens: I boot the Debian rescue floppy and insert the root floppy. Once the installer kicks in, I configure the keyboard and in the next step, the installer recognizes that it didn't find everything and asks me to insert a floppy containing modules to preload. I have no such floppy, and I'm not sure how to create one. What I've tried: 1. I wanted to make sure it wasn't a hardware problem so I checked to see if RedHat 6.2 would install. (It's one of their officially supported distros.) It installed like a dream and seems to run fine. Now I have nothing really against RedHat, but I've become quite a fan of Debian lately and APT alone is enough for me to want to put Debian on this thing. I've enclosed the dmesg from the RedHat boot below for your perusing pleasure. 2. Following the directions on the Debian rescue floppy, I built a new 2.2.18 kernel and included Compaq Smart2 support (the RAID controller) and drivers for the each of the two SCSI chipsets that might be on the machine. I replaced the stock rescue kernel with the new one, ran the rdev script, and booted. The array was detected, the NIC recognized, and everything seemed OK except that I got the exact same behavior as before--the installer couldn't find a H.D. 3. I aacrificed three chickens and sprinkled the blood on the server rack. No effect. Any suggestions? -Tim -- Tim Wilson | Visit Sibley online: | Check out: Henry Sibley HS | http://www.isd197.k12.mn.us/ | http://www.zope.org/ W. St. Paul, MN | | http://slashdot.org/ wilson at visi.com | <dtml-var pithy_quote> | http://linux.com/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:24:02 -0600 From: root <root at localhost.localdomain> To: wilson at visi.com Linux version 2.2.14-5.0 (root at porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Tue Mar 7 21:07:39 EST 2000 relocating initrd image: initrd_start:0xc0fa0000 initrd_end:0xc0fff34a mem_start:0xc026c000 mem_end:0xe8000000 initrd_size:0x0005f34a dest:0xe7fa0000 Detected 930435860 Hz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 927.33 BogoMIPS Memory: 646600k/655360k available (1060k kernel code, 416k reserved, 6836k data, 64k init, 0k bigmem) Dentry hash table entries: 262144 (order 9, 2048k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 524288 (order 9, 2048k) Page cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 1024k) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06 Enabling extended fast FPU save and restore...done. Not enabling KNI unmasked exception support Exception 19 error handler not integrated yet Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch (rgooch at atnf.csiro.au) PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0084 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: 00:00 [1166/0009]: Scanning peer host bridges PCI: Scanning RCC HE/LE Peer Bus Bridge 00/00 PCI: 00:01 [1166/0009]: Scanning peer host bridges PCI: Scanning RCC HE/LE Peer Bus Bridge 00/01 PCI: Device 00:00 not found by BIOS PCI: Device 00:01 not found by BIOS PCI: Device 00:78 not found by BIOS Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 524288 bhash 65536) Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured apm: BIOS not found. Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 79, VID=1166, DID=0211 PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0x2c00-0x2c07, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x2c08-0x2c0f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: CD-224E, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hda: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12 raid5: measuring checksumming speed raid5: KNI detected, trying cache-avoiding KNI checksum routine pIII_kni : 1765.173 MB/sec raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines pII_mmx : 2163.318 MB/sec p5_mmx : 2299.716 MB/sec 8regs : 1600.200 MB/sec 32regs : 910.590 MB/sec using fastest function: pIII_kni (1765.173 MB/sec) scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 Partition check: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). cpqarray: Device 1000 has been found at 0 8 Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 1.0.6) Found 1 controller(s) cpqarray: Finding drives on ida0 (Integrated Array) cpqarray ida/c0d0: blksz=512 nr_blks=35553120 cpqarray: Starting firmware's background processing ida/c0d0: ida/c0d0p1 ida/c0d0p2 < ida/c0d0p5 ida/c0d0p6 > ida/c0d0p3 autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. change_root: old root has d_count=1 Trying to unmount old root ... okay Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed Adding Swap: 526296k swap-space (priority -1) eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.18 $ 1999/12/29 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw at msu.ru> eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet at 0xe885d000, 00:02:A5:28:91:94, IRQ 11. Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around. Board assembly 010101-034, Physical connectors present: RJ45 Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1. General self-test: passed. Serial sub-system self-test: passed. Internal registers self-test: passed. ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).