LSI 9240-8i

[James Devine]

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6 August 2012 18:20, James Devine <fxmulder at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The install doesn't get far enough to use external drivers, as soon as I
> > choose 'Install Ubuntu' I get a blank black screen and it doesn't go any
> > further than that
>
> Please do not top-quote on the list.
>
> I had a similar problem on  Dell PowerEdge SC600 a couple of years back.
>
> The only workaround, documented in several places, was to install 8.04
> & upgrade it to 10.04.
>
> You could try the same with 10.04 now?
>
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10.04 does get past that point but it doesn't recognize the card by default
and getting the drivers to work seems to be a difficult task so really it
seems LSI + Ubuntu isn't a very good match
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