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May 30, 2006
Fedora Core 5 on Compaq Proliant DL360
I recently spent a whole bunch of time banging my head against a wall trying to get Fedora Core 5 installed on some Compaq Proliant DL360 machines I have. Core 4 installs fine, but Core 5 has a problem with the hardware RAID on these machines. The installer fails to identify the driver (cpqarray) successfully, and if selected manually, it finds it but fails to find any hard drives attached.
After quite a bit of searching, I found a posting at the Fedora Forum describing the fix. The trick is to boot the installer with:
linux noprobe noapic noapci
Once the installer fails to find the hard drive, select 'cpqarray' and 'sym53c8xx' drivers. After that, the install will complete successfully. All credit to this fix goes to 'Mesu' from Fedora Forums.
Tags: Compaq | Proliant | DL360 | Fedora | Core5 | FC5 | RAID | cpqarray |
Posted by Ian at May 30, 2006 07:19 PM
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CentOS 4.4 (RHEL 4 update 4) boots the installer just fine with kernel options "scsi=noprobe noapic". Kickstart users will need "device scsi cpqarray" in their ks file.
Posted by: Mike Arnold at September 23, 2006 02:33 PM
Do you have a solution for Fedora Core 9 and the DL360 G1 and G2? I've come up with nothing so far. Any ideas?
Posted by: Patrick Stasko at August 26, 2008 08:42 PM