Re: [OT] PowerEdge 6300 w/ PERC 2/SC controller

From: Alex Buell (alex.buell@tahallah.clara.co.uk)
Date: Mon Jun 12 2000 - 14:45:20 EST

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On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Alex Buell wrote:

> I have been trying to install RH 6.2 on this machine for the last two
> hours. Each time it fails to boot (first time - couldn't uncompress
> kernel, second time - booted kernel OK but panicked with a failure to
> mount root fs on 0:8).

Thanks to everyone who replied. I had to download rh62ret.zip from Dell's
website which solved the installation problems. I also had to upgrade the
firmware in the RAID controller. Once all that was done, everything worked
like a dream.

Thanks a lot, guys! :o)

Cheers,
Alex

(Happy user of a Dell PowerEdge 6300 w/ four 550MHz Pentium III Xeon
w/512k cache, with 512MB ECC memory, 17GB RAID storage. I'm in love!)

-- If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours!

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