Jeff wrote:
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Ruslan Sivak russ@vshift.com wrote:
Tim Verhoeven wrote:
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Ruslan Sivak russ@vshift.com wrote:
I successfully installed CentOS on 3ware 9650SE controller. Due to some issues with compatibility with my motherboard, I replaced it with a 9690SA. Now the system won't boot (although interestingly enough, it find the boot menu fine, just won't boot past a certain point in the bootup phase.
I thought I would reinstall, but anaconda doesn't find the raid array. 3ware does have drivers on their site, but I'm not too sure how to get them on my system?
That controller requires a newer version of the 3ware driver. I'm pretty sure the 5.2 will have that driver. So if you can wait a bit longer...
Regards, Tim
For production use, I can, but currently we are testing these servers, and I would like to get them up and running. Is there a way to load a driver on an already running system, or load it for anaconda? Something similar to F6 in windows?
Yes, anaconda supports the concept of a driver disk.
http://www.centos.org/docs/2/rhl-ig-as-x86-en-2.1/ch-driverdisk.html
And 3ware offers a disk image download for 9690SA/RHEL5.
Thank you. I noticed that they said in the docs to install by using linux dd. 3ware provides a zip file with the drivers, not a disk image, AFAIK. I burned the contents of the zip to a cd, but anaconda fails to recognize it. It keeps complaining about not being able to find a fat or a ext3 filesystem on the driver disk.
I don't have a floppy drive, only a cdrom and a flash drive. Do I need to get a floppy drive in order for this to work?
Russ