Horchler, Joerg wrote: > Hi all, > > I try to install CentOS 4.3 for X64_64 on a new Dell PowerEdge 2950. I have > two problems: > > 1. > After booting from CD I pressed 'return' to start installation (BIOS-support > for USB-keyboard works). After probing the hardware my USB-Keyboard is not > working anymore. Dell removed ALL PS/2-Interfaces so I have to use USB. When > I start installation with 'linux noprobe' the keyboard still is working and > the installation starts. unfortunately, the usb support at install time is quite limited, what you might need to do is find specifically what h/w is causing the installer / keyboard to freeze up, and disable probe of that device /bus only. the noprobe, by itself, will tend to stop the installer from looking at anything - perhaps, not the desired result. > > 2. > After the installation starts it tries to load the storage drivers. In the > case for this hardware it tries to load megaraid_sas. But it can't load the > driver without an error. The installer just says:"loading megaraid_sas" for > hours and hours (the complete last night). When I start with 'linux noprobe' > I'm able to look at another console (alt+F2) and can try 'lsmod'. The output > for megaraid_sas is 'loading' and not 'live' (again: for hours). you will need, as Jim pointed out already, the drivers from Dell for this - also, i see you have an issue with the /dev/hda instead of the /dev/fd0 coming up, one workaround for this is to convert the drivers into an iso format and burn that to CD... What Ver / Arch of CentOS are you installing here anyway ? in most cases the installer will ask for which device has the Driver Disk ( you only need to boot with linux dd ). the only time that it wont ask, is when it can only find one device which might contain the driver disk ( perhaps with the noprobe the fd0 is not being detected at all ). if you have network, DD=http://somewhere/ should work as well, from the boot line. I've not actually used one of these machines, so just sharing some ideas that might be worth trying. HTH -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq