HP Netserver LH3 Stand-alone with NetRaid

[jeager]

I have the task of loading SuSe Linux 8.1 on to this LH3 which presently has SCO Unix on it. The machine has three (3) 9.1 GByte hot-swop drives in a raid five (5) configuration.

Trying to boot from the SuSe CDROM and it cannot find ANY drives.

I'm sort of a newbie at this.

What steps must I take to accomplish this task?

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Jerry

[BSmith2277 · Accepted solution]

Your LH3 has the dreaded MegaRAID Raid Controller. (just kidding to you HP purists)
There is Linux support for this controller, but generally there is some work involved.
To a Newbie, this task can be very intimidating.

Luckly, you are using SuSE, so there is better support out-of-the-box than most.

Here is a link to a SuSE (Novell) support that addresses this issue:
http://support.novell.com/techcenter/sdb/en/2004/09/tsaupe_sles9_megaraid.html

I hope you find this info helpful.
Please let us know if this procedure does not work as advertised.

[jeager]

Thank you for the fast reply. I'll print the referenced pages and try them on Monday.

Thanks again. I'll let the thread know the results.

Jerry

[e4services]

A simple solution is to mount an internal SCSI drive (D7176A) and attach it to the Adaptec SCSI onboard controller. ou will have a driver for the Adaptec, but not one for the RAID controller, which will be necessary to access the logical drive the NetRAID creates

[BSmith2277]

Jerry,

I tried the instructions I gave you to in a link from SuSE on my LT6000r.
Those instructions were not good enough for SuSE 10 Enterprise.
I will need to try again with a non-enterprise SuSE distribution.

So, what's my point??
...you are still stuck with trying to install Linux on a MegaRAID controller and now I am in the same boat as you.

It was suggested to install a non-RAID hard drive to use as a bootable system volume, then later, after a normal install, recompile the kernel with MegaRAID support.
Unfortunately, my LT6000r does not have physical space for such a drive, so this option is not available to me.

So, I am looking for a solution to this installing Linux (any Distribution) on a MegaRAID controller problem.
(not a true problem, but an unsolved opportunity)