Bug 94628 – Legacy megaraid driver missing on 2005.0 LiveCD

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Angela Williams 2005-05-31 08:13:15 UTC]

The current LiveCD 2005.0 only has driver support for the newer LSI megaraid
controller.
The older/legacy driver needed for the megaraid 4ch  controller supplied by Dell
for standard
ide disks is not in the kernel source tree used to create both 2005.0 and 2004.3
Live CD's  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Any smaller Dell server with a 'cerc' 4ch megaraid controller
2.Boot either 2005.0 or 2004.3 LiveCD's
3.Not raid controller is found and megaraid.ko driver is no existant within
/lib/modules 

Actual Results:  
Unable to access raid disks configured on Megaraid controller

Expected Results:  
Found the controller or provided the legacy megaraid drivers to manually load!

I have found a possible way to circumvent the problem!
I have done a minimal load of FC3 with a manual install of the megaraid driver -
"linux dd"
I created a 6G partion for FC3 to use plus my normal boot, swap,  root, and lvm2
partions
to be used later by Gentoo.
I followed the steps in "The Gentoo Linux alternative installation method HOWTO"

[Comment 1 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2005-06-19 04:15:09 UTC]

dup/related to 62508

[Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-06-20 06:46:17 UTC]

Right... even though this isn't exactly a duplicate, I'll mark it as such
anyway, since fixing the one will fix the other.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 62508 ***