I´m trying to install Gentoo with a LiveCD (install-x86-universal-2004.3-r1) on an HP Netserver LH3 PII/350MHz.
Here are my machine's features: Single processor 640MB Ram Original Network Adapter (D5013A) 3x 9.1Gb SCSI HardDrives (HP)
The 3 Hard drives are in a RAID array, type 5.
I boot from the LiveCD like indicated in the Installation Handbook (www.gentoo.org), and just before the prompt, I see Network Card Detected (in GREEN letters). However, It's the only thing about the network card I can see, because the screen moves forward to the prompt. The next step (at the prompt) is to check if the network adapter has been detected. I type "ifconfig" and I don't get any ETH0 information, I only get info on "lo Link encap: Local Loopback..." I type "net-setup eth0" and configure it automatically, but when I type "ifconfig" again I don't see nothing about ETH0 either. I know the card on my LH3 can be controlled by the "eepro100" module, which doesn't come with the Gentoo distribuition. I've found a way to compile this module for my kernel, but I need to do it in a hard drive, because my boot CD is obviously read-only. This brings me to my second (certainly not last!) problem. I can't find/open the hard drive (I have 1 hardware-configured Logical Hard-drive) with fdisk, nor can I make the necessary partitions to install Gentoo.
Wasn't the Logical Hard-Drive (combination of the 3 SCSI drives) supposed to be presented to the Linux OS as ONE normal hard drive? On startup, by pressing Ctrl+M, I can access the HP RAID Tools (or something like that). Why does one of the disks in the RAID Array (the last) appear as a 17 Gb one, even if my 3 drives are all 9.1Gb each?
Thank you to anyone having the patience to reply. I'm kinda new with Linux and just got this server, so I'm in the dark here.
I HAVE managed to get the Ethernet Card working. It must have been some IRQ conflict. I just assigned a fixed IRQ to the Network Card in the BIOS. Before, the card's IRQ number was set to auto.
About the RAID drive, It's still not working. Here are the commands I issue:
- "modprobe megaraid_mbox" - "fdisk /dev/sda"
The fdisk command returns "Unable to open /dev/sda"
With - "lsmod" I get: "MODULE SIZE USED BY megaraid_mbox 22640 0 megaraid_mm 6720 1 megaraid_mbox ..."
I load "megaraid_mbox" instead of "megaraid" (with the "modprobe" command) because I only have the "megaraid_mbox.ko" and "megaraid_mm.ko" files in my "/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r1/kernel/drivers/scsi/megaraid/" directory. That is, no "megaraid.ko". (I assume the ".ko" extention indicates that a file represents a module, please correct me if I'm wrong). Note that just by loading "megaraid_mbox", "megaraid_mm" is automatically loaded with it, as seen in the "lsmod" I listed above. The opposite, however, is not true.
