We also have some DL380g3's; I side-stepped the problem by doing a network-based install - copied the RedHat directories from the CD's (per the install guide) into a single directory on a different machine, exported it, then used CD-1 to boot and initiate the network install. If you're doing an upgrade, you could copy the iso images into a disk area you're not reformatting and do a disk-based install. Only the CDROM seems to be unusable from the install kernel.
The network install was faster than a CD install, and you don't have to babysit it to change CD's.
HP has a source RPM on their website for some bcm5700 drivers to replace the tg3 gigabit Ethernet drivers, as well as eprom updates for the motherboard and cciss Raid controller. First time I saw an eprom updater that ran from Linux.
If you're really adventurous, download their binary cciss module update. The binary rpm is really just a tarball, and it includes the source for the patches to the cciss kernel source. You can merge these into the kernel source and rebuild an updated cciss driver module (and remake the initrd image to for the boot).
Hope this helps, -Bob Arendt
Dario Lesca wrote:
Hi, I have the same problem show below (see also the thread) and I have not found a solution....
Some Suggest?
Many Thank
Dario Lesca
----- Original Message ----- From: <Saqib.N.Ali@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 6:30 PM
Subject: RedHat 9.0 issues on Compaq DL 380
Hi All,
I am having issues installing Redhat 9.0 on a Compaq DL 380 G3 Server.
The CD boots, but when it get into the interactive installation mode, I
get
a error msg saying that Redhat CD not found in the drive. I am able to successfully install RedHat 8.0 on this particular server.
............
----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Wilson" <msw@xxxxxxxxxx>
But I was wondering, I am to install 8.0 and 7.3 without any issues, why
is
only 9.0 having this problem? And we noticed the same problem on another
of
our newer Dell Server.
It's a kernel ide driver bug.
Cheers,
Matt msw@xxxxxxxxxx
------- Dario Lesca (d.lesca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
