[Asterisk-Users] Semi OT - SuperMicro config question for the Linux/Hardware jedi's - $50 bounty!

[Master Abi]

Cory,

An easier way to do it: (used gentoo)
1.  Connect a PATA drive and install gentoo with 2.6.14 and include 
Marvell SATA driver.
2.  Use Ghost for Linux V.0.17 and copy PATA disk to SATA disk.
3.  Disconnect the PATA
4.  Boot from the install CD and change grub.conf and fstab
5.  Reboot and be happy

Another way is to build your own universal CD. This way you do not have 
fiddle with drives.

Master

David Muench wrote:
> On 12/21/05, Cory Andrews <Cory at voipsupply.com> wrote:
> 
>>I have a SuperMicro 5013C-MT with the P4SCT+ motherboard and am having
>>trouble
>>with all Linux distributions  (Debian, Gentoo, Redhat ES3 and
>>Ubuntu). No distributions will detect the SATA drives and therefore
>>cannot install.
> 
> 
> Hi Cory,
> 
> I have that system as well - excellent system, but it was frustrating
> getting Linux on it. Here's what I did with Ubuntu:
> 
> Boot up the Ubuntu live cd. apt-get build-essential and the kernel
> sources. Download the marvell SATA driver. I am using 3.4.2a, and have
> been for 6+ months with no issues. If you're using Ubuntu 5.10 which
> has kernel 2.6.12, you'll need a patch to get the driver to compile -
> send me an email directly if you can't find it on google. Build the
> driver in the livecd, and then copy mvSata.ko off to another machine.
> 
> Then boot the Ubuntu install CD, and after it sets up the network but
> before it gets to the partitioning, ALT-F2 into a shell and grab that
> mvSata.ko from the machine you copied it to. modprobe that in the
> Ubuntu shell and the disks should be available. You should be able to
> proceed through the Ubuntu install now.
> 
> The next problem is that Ubuntu has no knowledge of that mvSata
> driver, so it won't be part of the initrd once you finish the install
> and reboot, so Ubuntu won't boot. Boot up the livecd again, grab the
> mvSata.ko off of your other machine to get the disks online, and then
> generate a new initrd in your ubuntu install. Basically you need to
> copy mvSata.ko to /lib/modules/<kernel ver>/kernel/drivers/scsi/ and
> then do a depmod with the -b option since your real root partition
> will be mounted somewhere else like /mnt or wherever you mounted it.
> After that use mkinitrd to generate a new initrd including the mvSata
> module.
> 
> This sounds like a heck of a lot of work but it's not so bad. Once you
> get it installed once, kernel upgrades are easy - you just need to put
> the mvSata in place and regenerate the initrd after installing the new
> kernel. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
> 
> Dave
> 
> --
> David Muench - davemuench at gmail.com
> Jabber ID: dave at jabber.wasteland.org
> _______________________________________________
> --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com --
> 
> Asterisk-Users mailing list
> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
>    http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
>