Coach Thrasher

HP XW9300 and Adaptec 2015S Linux Notes

I'm installing Linux on two machines for personal use and I've had a hell of a time getting the installer to identify the hardware.

The first box was a HP XW9300 machine, and I was applying a Fedora 8 installation via DVD. The problem was that the installer need a boot parameter to turn off ACPI, which was interfering with the hardware probe. This is done at the installer boot prompt with:
boot: linux pci=noacpi

The second box was a Supermicro 1u server (H8DAR-8 motherboard) with an Adaptec 2015S SCSI RAID host controller card, and I was applying CentOS 5.1 via DVD. I had configured the Adaptec to use RAID 10 for use as a database machine and CentOS 5.1 wasn't picking up the driver on probe. The solution was to boot into noprobe mode with:
boot: linux noprobe text

and then to specify the driver manually:
I2O Block driver (i2o_block)

I couldn't find this info anywhere, so hopefully it will help someone else.

Posted at 08:56AM Dec 10, 2007 by jason in Hardware  |