Dell2950 & new hardware policy

[Calvin Browne]

On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 12:30 +0200, Sébastien Estienne wrote:
> Calvin Browne a écrit :
> > Hi All
> > 
> > Just got delivery of two shiny Dell 2950's with 'PERC 5I INTG SAS RAID
> > CARD' and Broadcom NIC's. Naturally, I want to install Dapper (who
> > wouldn't).
> > 
<SNIP>
> 
> i think you can do this:
> echo megaraid_sas >> /etc/mkinitramfs/modules
> dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.15-your_specific_version

My fix was as follows:

------------------------------
|Hack to get Dapper working - do before rebooting after install finished
|(from <Alt-F2> screen).
|echo "megaraid_sas">>/etc/mkinitramfs/modules
|dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.15-26-amd-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***
------------------------------

the grub-install will need to be changed as per your setup - ie we have
6 SAS drives in a RAID-10 config, hence the sd*g* as the raid device is
the 7th device, until you reboot - then its the first :-%
A two disk raid setup might use sdc.... ymmv.

> 
> maybe you can do the same for the bnx2, but i don't think it needs to be 
> in the initramfs.
> If it doesn't load automatically at boot time, you can add it to 
> /etc/modules
> 

simply configuring the network worked for me...

> I read in some forum that sometimes the network device enumeration order 
> can change for some reasons, if it's your case, you cause /etc/iftab to 
> assign a fixed name to your ifaces.

yip - seen these switch around...

<SNIP>

> > Does the server project have a policy/mechanism for adding support for
> > new hardware, particularly in the light of the LTS commitment?
> > Would it help paying Canonical for any of the above?
> 
> I'm also interesting in answers about these question.
> Will these issues be fixed in Dapper?
> I guess that more and more people will have these issues because these 
> Dell servers are quite popular and these issues are present on almost 
> all new dell servers : 1950 /1955 /2950 and i guess all servers using 
> megaraid_sas and bnx2.
> 
> Maybe in dapper 6.06.2 ?

Some kind of policy statement would be nice and go a long way to making
Ubuntu Server Enterprise ready ;-)

Thanks to all who helped....

--Calvin

PS - Xenifying these besties and indications are they fly ;-)