On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Claude Johnson wrote: > Has anyone successfully kickstarted a Compaq server with a > Smart Array 5i RAID controller? I haven't yet figured out the > magic incantation for specifying the devices to the part > command, and so I keep getting dropped into Disk Druid. > Any thoughts, ideas, or suggestions are welcome. The crontroller > uses the cciss driver. > I have done five Compaq DL380 systems with an Integrated Smart Array controller (but I forget the exact model of the controller). I put this in my ks.cfg file: # P R E - I N S T A L L A T I O N C O M M A N D S %pre # create the disk device mkdir /dev/ida mknod /dev/ida/c0d0 b 72 0 mknod 660 /dev/ida/c0d0 # partition the disk # don't erase existing Compaq diagnostics partition echo | fdisk /dev/ida/c0d0 <<EOF followed by the fdisk commands to partition the disk. I had to figure out the device name and fdisk parameters by manually installing RedHat Linux once, and using fdisk rather than Disk Druid to partition the disk. Carl Carl G. Riches Software Engineer Department of Mathematics Box 354350 voice: 206-543-5082 or 206-616-3636 University of Washington fax: 206-543-0397 Seattle, WA 98195-4350 internet: riches@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
