[Fedora] IBM Netfinity 5000

[Bill Davidsen]

Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> 
>    We've got success.  After the net install finished, first it wouldn't 
> boot at all, so I went into rescue mode and tried booting the drive then 
> only to have it tell it that it didn't have any bootable partitions.  
> So, a little bit of grub-install magic, the system now boots without a 
> problem.
> 
>    Next step was to run 'yum update' ... and while installing 
> "kernel-PAE-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686", I saw these warnings/errors:
> 
> Possible missing firmware aic94xx-seq.fw for module aic94xx.ko
> Possible missing firmware ql1800_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
> Possible missing firmware ql2500 for module qla2xxx.ko
> Possible missing firmware ql2400 for module qla2xxx.ko
> Possible missing firmware ql2322 for module qla2xxx.ko
> Possible missing firmware ql2300 for module qla2xxx.ko
> Possible missing firmware ql2200 for module qla2xxx.ko
> Possible missing firmware ql2100 for module qla2xxx.ko
> 
>    Is this something that should be addressed?  For the record, the 
> machine has an Adaptec AIC-7895, so I don't *think* the 94xx is even 
> needed here.
> 
Unless you want to run the qlogic controller, ignore this.

Is this the good "ServRAID" controller? It's an Adaptek with IBM firmware. Good 
board. Ran a bunch of them, TB of little tiny drives.

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