Ubuntu on Dell PowerEdge 2850

[Mario Guerra]

2005/9/16, Johann Spies <jspies at sun.ac.za>:

> I was not successful when I tried to install Ubuntu Hoary (x86) on a
> similar server with 4Gb ram.  Neither with Debian Sarge a few weeks
> before Sarge became Stable.  I had to use a debian-dell-2.4.31.iso
> available on the internet and used the kernel configuration of on that
> iso as a basis for compiling a custom kernel which could handle the
> PERC4e.
> 

Use the Debian Sarge 3.1r0a official CD. It installed the Perc4e RAID
out of the box. I wonder why the Ubuntu Hoary, which is based on
Sarge, does not include the driver, possibly because the kernel was
based on an earlier Sarge version?.

Perhaps you could install Breezy, which is near a release. It includes
the megaraid_mbox driver, which handles the Perc RAID.

Cheers.

- 
Mario A. Guerra
San José, Costa RIca