[K12OSN] HP NetRaid (LSI MegaRaid) & invisible drives

[David H. Barr]

>>> boot from CD, and what do you know... my NetRAID (AKA LSI MegaRaid)
>>> is detected, but no logical drive is detected.  I booted sysResc and
>>> verified that I have a logical drive that should be presented to
>>> Fedora, but no dice.

>> Apparently (from what I've gathered) FC3 and HP NetRaids don't play
>> well together.  Anyone on the Fedora lists forward this for me?  The
>> actual part is known as "HP NetRAID 1si" / "LSI MegaRAID Express
>> 200" / "Dell PERC2/SE", and apparently this was at one time "Bug
>> 135484" for Fedora Core 3... help?
 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=138590
> You might try the driver disk mentioned in comment #22.

Thanks for that tip, Dan.  It got me over the initial install hump.  I successfully walked through a noprobe install, but then on reboot I get the following:

Red Hat nash version 4.1.18 starting
  Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
  No volume groups found
  No volume groups found
  No volume groups found
mount: error 6 mounting ext3
mount: error 2 mounting none
switchroot: mount failed: 22
umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-December/msg01164.html is the only other place I can find a reference to this bug other than 135484 and 138590.  As per those suggestions, I've booted off of a Fedora Core 2 rescue CD (FC3 resc displays same misbehaviour) and edited my /etc/modprobe.conf (replaced megaraid_mbox with megaraid).  Still nothing.

I still have the floppy with the updated megaraid module from comment 22; any suggestions on how to add that into my FC3 k12ltsp system?  It seems that the latest FC3 kernels have solved this problem, so if I could somehow run up2date from the rescue CD, that should work as well.  The third option appears to be rolling my own kernel, but I'm a bit wet behind the ears for that... comments?  questions?  rebuttals?

David H. Barr
Sys / Net Admin
Oklahoma Goodwill Industries