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hirez

Stick-on pointy beard and musical armpit sandals

Jan 19, 2006 09:38

So. Were a chap desirous of building a Beardian installer ISO that had the sense to recognise AMI Megaraid/HP NetRaid cards, like, maybe, every other blasted OS available (With the possible exception of DECX and RT11/M), where would be a good place to start ( Read more... )

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nalsa January 19 2006, 09:44:36 UTC

Can't you do it using OpenSolaris, as in making a JumpStart ISO? Not something I've ever done, but I think the device builds are pretty decent.

hirez January 19 2006, 09:54:08 UTC

Um. Given where I work (HP Labs), running Sun s/w would be... Hugely entertaining. You're a bad influence. I hope you're suitably ashamed. (ie - not very much)

Mind, I've got an OpenBSD installer for HP-PA. Yes, OpenBSD runs on Humppa!

nalsa January 19 2006, 10:06:39 UTC

OpenBSD on HP? Crumbs. Soon you'll be saying OSX runs on x86!

hirez January 19 2006, 22:42:24 UTC

It turns out that getting BSD to run on my old PA-RISC workstation is significantly less hassle than getting OpenSlow to boot on, well, anything.

reddragdiva January 19 2006, 11:59:38 UTC

u*u is something else entirely. I presume you mean funroll-loops leegnux.

hirez January 19 2006, 12:43:55 UTC

I probably do.

Ubuntu-latest is the familiar Beardian installer, but it fails to find both the Raid card and the NIC.

funroll-loops is downloading now. The shame of it.

reddragdiva January 19 2006, 12:47:18 UTC

That's odd, it's been remarkably good with hardware in my experience. Ah well.

hirez January 19 2006, 13:10:29 UTC

It is odd. It's Beardian, albeit a more recent kernel, but still...

Meanwhile, Memtest86 has thrown up a dodgy DIMM. Today is not the day for playing with hardware.

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mr_tom January 19 2006, 17:10:24 UTC

Knoppix or one of the many variants thereof? I'd have thought that someone would have tried to make a rescue disk based around it for aforementioned storage devices...

hirez January 19 2006, 22:58:28 UTC

Knoppix 4.x failed to spot the RAID card. Well, it nearly worked.

The fix was to use the 2.4 kernel on an 'Etch' net-boot CD in expert mode.

It would seem that since it's an old product, recent and 'improved' MegaRaid drivers don't work at all.

I need to do another one tomorrow, so it'll be educational to see if a standard Beardian 3.1 (sarge?)/2.4 kernel CD will work.

I now know a lot more about several flavours of Linux and I'm damn well staying here in sensible BSD land.

spride January 19 2006, 19:38:57 UTC

Any mileage in Darwin?

hirez January 19 2006, 23:05:03 UTC

Plenty, probably. I'd really like an excuse to play with it. I'd like to find out if development on it is as much 'fun' as with KDE/Qt.

However, I've got to build boxes that the rest of the team can stand a chance of fixing if I get run over by a bus. We decided to standardise on Beardian quite a while ago, and modulo this particular hardware (which will cease to be a problem as the obsolete kit quietly goes), it's not been a decision anyone's had cause to regret. It got rid of all the effing rpm-based systems for a start. Stuff Just Works, and if you play by the package-management rules, it'll continue to work without handholding.