Trouble Loading Red hat 7 on dl 380

[kevin poole_1]

I am trying to load RH7 on a dl380 and i recieve a message that says "no valid hardware found to create filsystem on" During post it recognizes the drives and can see their volume, i ran through the steps to create a logical drive and all. but I still recieve this message. Any ideas? Still very new to linux.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Use the DL380 CD to boot and prepare disk. Then install RedHat. It should work at that point.

If not, try a version of Red Hat that is certified for the server.

SEP

[kevin poole_1]

do not have the original dl 380 disc. Which versions of red hat are certified for the 380. I cannot find the docs on HP's web?

[Al_56]

It will also depend upon which DL380 you're installing on. RH 7 may not have drivers for the RAID 5i adapter (G3), 6i (G4) and whatever RAID adapter the G5's are running.

Here is the link for drivers if you have a DL380 G3: http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/family/model/4706.html?submit.y=0&submit.x=0〈=en&cc=us

If you don' have a G3, just type in the model on search field (Dl380 G4 for instance), to find all supported OS's.

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Alan

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

First at all, I suggest you to start with RHEL 4 (or CentOS 4) instead of unsupported RH Linux 7.
Second - I almost sure that RHL 7 doesn't support disk controller and NIC of DL380 G3/G4.