Other Help Topics :: Compaq Proliant 1850R autoconfiguring issue



The drives are SCSI.
I gained some assistance from a "server guy" at work.
We were able to do some preliminary setup: upgraded bios and firmware.
Two of the drives were not working, but he fixed that.
Made two arrays:
Array 1 = two 9GB's mirrored for the OS
Array 2 = four 18 GB's RAID 5 for data, etc.
He also looked around the HP website for Linux info regarding that particular server. Since all the distro's I've tried thus far hang unless in failsafe, he was able to find HP's suggestions, which were Red Hat 8 or SUSE 9. The SmartArray controller sounds like it may be picky as far as Linux is concerned. And since I have no experience with RAID, servers, or SCSI, I will be trying different distros until I find the 'right' one. I would guess that many distros would work, I just don't know what to do to make them work. May even be as easy as pass something during boot, but who knows. Something intersting, though, was when I tried Knoppix with the newer experimental kernel at boot, it made it through the autoconfig part, but when it goes to bring up X, the screen goes blank and I can not figure out how to get back to the prompt. That was encouraging, but my limited experience raised it's ugly head again. I'm downloading Fedora3, and will try my SUSE 9.1, and Red Hat 9, just to see if they work on an experience level such as mine.
FYI,

If your X-Windows does not work right, you can press CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to return to the text mode.

Then make the needed changes to your XF86Config-4 file and restart Xwindows with the "startx" command.
That's what I usually do, however, that didn't work in this case. I don't know why......
There is something "speacial" about this machine and I'm starting not to like it.
Red Hat 9 hangs when starting the install process.
Suse 9 hangs when starting the install process.
Fedora Core 3 won't even get THAT far.....
I'm about to break out the WindowsNT Server CD's...... at least I KNOW that works on it.
(somebody stop me!..... please)
When the screen goes blank, if you press the "Num Lock" key, does the Num Lock LED turn on and off?

If is does not toggle on and off then your computer is locked up.

Otherwise, you are probably experiencing a problem with the display and not the entire computer.

Try booting knoppix or dsl with the "vga=normal" boot command and see if that helps.
cbagger,

I do not recall trying the numlock key, but will make a mental note to pay attention to that next time. I want to say I tried the "normal" mode, but it's not in my notes so I'll do it again, or the for the first time or whichever the case may be.
I am resisting the urge to install NT Server, I really hate to do that. This machine is too good for Bill Gates and would feel very triumphant if DSL or Knoppix was at it's heart.

Thanks for the tips!
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