IBM Xseries 360m: no hd with install-x86-minimal-20131029

Spanik · l33t Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 942 Location: Belgium

I'm trying to re-use an IBM Xseries 360m. There is a booting Centos on it but as I don't have any info about it I'm going to replace it.

The problem is when I boot from the minimal cd there are no hard disks detected. Both fdisk -l and parted -l turn out blank (parted finds the cdrom). Both disks are connected to an Adaptec AIC9405W SAS/SATA controller.

If I check dmesg I find this:

Christian99 · Veteran Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 1668

This could be the one, at least you can try it.
Put it in /lib/firmware ( create the dir, if not there) and then make "modprobe aic94xx". I don't have an install cd here, but i guess it is build as module.

then look in dmesg again (at the end) and see what it says about aic94xx.

Spanik · l33t Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 942 Location: Belgium

Ok, copied the file to that directory and ran "modprobe aic94xx". No error but nothing added to dmesg. With lsmod I see that aic94xx is listed. I tried "make "modprobe aic94xx""" but got make: command not found. So that way doesn't go either.
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2013 4:25 pm Post subject:

Spanik,

The aic94xx module loaded but did not find its firmware.
Boot the CD add the firmware to /lib/firmware as described

Spanik · l33t Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 942 Location: Belgium

Indeed, this works, thanks. I'm not really up-to-date with modprobe. Mostly I check what is in the bow and then build that straight into the kernel. I get a lot more in the dmesg now and it ends with:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 12:20 am Post subject:

Spanik,

Thats correct.

If you want to build aic94xx into the kernel, you must build the firmware in too.

You have /dev/md126 and /dev/md127. Do not use the underlying partitions at all.