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cd /lib/modules tar xvzf kernel-2.4.9-21-aacraid.tgz /sbin/mkinitrd -v -f /boot/initrd-2.4.9-21.img 2.4.9-21 /sbin/mkinitrd -v -f /boot/initrd-2.4.9-21smp.img 2.4.9-21smp /sbin/mkinitrd -v -f /boot/initrd-2.4.9-21enterprise.img 2.4.9-21enterpriseomitting the creation of initrds that you don't need of course.
perc_pciid=0x1028,0x0A,0x1028,0x011B
perc_pciid=0x1028,0x0A,0x1028,0x0121
devname="aac"
then run it with:
cd /dev
/dev/MAKEDEV.afa afa0
LSI is now maintaining current copies of the megaraid driver for 2.4.x and 2.5.x kernels on their FTP server. You should use these instead of the older driver versions below.
Archived older versions of the driver for 2.2.x and 2.4.x can be found in the megaraid directory. (You need a patch from the mailing list from 2 January 2003 to build with 2.2.x kernels.) A development-level megaraid 2.00 driver for 2.4.x and 2.5.x kernels is available in the megaraid directory.
You may need new firmware for your MegaRAID-based cards. In particular, the PERC2/SC firmware older than v3.13 has known problems, and recent (>=2.2.16, >=2.4.x) kernels require the PERC2/SC firmware to be upgraded before use. The driver will tell you so if needed.
When in doubt, consult http://support.dell.com/filelib, choosing "Not Applicable" under OS (as firmware isn't specific to any one OS).Current release:
OpenManage Server Administrator 1.5 for Linux released around
1-Sept-2003. This includes many components, including an open-source
(GNU GPL'd) DRAC2 driver, removes the DRAC3/ERA/ERA/O driver in favor
of the standard Linux serial driver, new versions of OpenManage Server
Agent, a command-line interface for retreiving temperatures, voltages,
fan speeds, an integrated web server (https://xx.xx.xx.xx:1311) for
obtaining system info, etc. Validated on Red Hat Linux only, releases
up to 9 and Enterprise Linux 2.1 AS.
Note: OMSA 1.5 has a check to prevent installation on RHEL
2.1 ES (which hasn't been tested by the OMSA team, though the code is
identical to that of 2.1 AS). This test will be removed in OMSA 1.6.
In the mean time, change /etc/redhat-release from saying "ES" to say
"AS" and install OMSA, then switch it back.
Note: installation may fail if your kernel sources are not
available in the expected place. You can make installation succeed if
you make /usr/src/linux-2.4 a symlink to your actual kernel source
location.
Obsoleted releases:
With OMSA 1.2 or earlier, if you have difficulty rebuilding the source code shim because of an error in including <linux/malloc.h>, you may change that line to include <linux/slab.h> instead and it will work.
Josh provides instructions and an ISO for network installing 2.1AS on a PE1655MC blade server.
Guillaume Chambraud (EDS Answare) tells us he made a megaraid driver disk for the PowerEdge 2600 ROMB. (disk updated 23-Jan-2003).
See the OpenManage Contrib section above to get OMSA working on Debian.
Christophe Kern has built a Debian ISO for installing on the PE1655MC blade server.
Victor van Beekum has built a Debian netinst ISO for installing on the PE2600 and PE2650. It's got aacraid, megaraid 1.18f, e1000, and tg3 driver in it, so should work on most Dell servers.