On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 16:37 -0700, AZ Pete wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm hoping someone can help me with compiling and installing a SCSI RAID
> controller driver.
>
> The controller in question is a LSI Megaraid Enterprise 1500 SCSI
> controller. I'm trying to load Fedora Core 3.
>
> However, during the hardware detection phase, an error comes up saying that
> there are no hard drives found. This server only has SCSI drives (no IDE)
> on 2 different RAID channels. The current OS is Win2k and everything works
> fine under windows. I'd like to convert this machine to Linux for some
> internal dev work. Interestingly, if I load Redhat 9, it detects the
> controller just fine and Disk Druid sees all the drives. I even booted
> Linux BBC and it detected the controller and drives with no problems. It
> seems that the controller is detected with kernel 2.4, but 2.6 doesn't have
> the correct drivers.
>
> I contacted LSI and they said they don't support Fedora, but the driver
> source is available for download. So, I downloaded the source for the 2.6
> kernel, but am now at a loss for how to proceed.
>
> All the instructions provided by LSI consists of re-compiling the kernel on
> an existing installation to include the drivers within the kernel (or as
> modules).
>
> I'd like to build a driver from this source and copy them to a driver disk
> which I can then load during the Fedora install.
> How is this done? If anyone can guide me in the right direction I'd
> greatly appreciate it.
----
bugzilla is your friend
<
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138590>
and probably more helpful is
<
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123707>
try appending 'linux acpi=off' to the boot before pressing enter and see
what happens
Craig
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