I have a HP NetServer LH3000 With the Integrated LSI NetRAID controller. Everything worked great with Fedora Core 1, but I cannot install Core 2 or 3. It fails on the NetRAID. The drive loads but it says that is finds no harddisks. I have the same problem with newer versions of SUSE and a couple other distros. The only newer distro that i have gotten to work is Mandrake 10.0. But I personally prefer Fedora.

I have also tried disabling the RAID feature and try to create the RAID through Linux, but it hands on loading the SCSI driver. It also has an onboard Adaptec controller that uses the AIC3000 driver that also hangs the install if it is enabled.

Does anyone have any ideas on getting it to work with Core 3?

Have you found a way to use fedora 3 with your netserver? I ended up staying on RH9.0. Just was curious if you found a way to do it.

No. I have been forced to say on FC1, it works great butt would like to move to a supported version. I'm keeping my fingers crossed on FC4...

I have an LH6000 and experienced the same problem. I went into BIOS and changed the setting for the SCSI to be LVD instead of HP NetRaid. This turns off hardware raid but FC3 sees the drives and then you can use them from there......

This is not what I want but until someone comes out with a compatible driver that works this is the only way to use FC3 on the hardware....

I've tested the Fedora 4 software on my HP Netserver 3000 but found that it's also not working.
Also changing the SCSI controllertype (to LVD) in the bios was not giving any success.
Now I'm stuck with RH9, which I can't update :-(

i have the same problem with my LH6000 i have RH9 install on it and i am not able to upgrade to anything
i tryed Red Hat Enterprise 3.90(4 beta),latest Mandriva,FreeBSD 5.4
our servers are becoming obsolete

I hate to trash my current working hardware...but I need the Active Directory support from the more recent versions. I guess my old hardware is just screwed.

Sam

Are you capable to install rh9 in netserver 3000r??

How? can you help me? I tried but Netraid fails, I think that red hat 9 megaraid driver is not the best

Sorry, haven't tried RH9 on it.

Did you ever find a cure?

I am trying to install to an HP NetServer 6000r U3 and am experiencing failures with the megaraid portion of the install.

No, I finally gave up on the idea. I had to put windoze back on it.

Hello there.

I also have LH 6000r with 12 disks. I have been using Fedora Core 4 without any problems, just kernel complaints at the boot time that the BIOS cutoff date & ACPI...blah... blah... So I decided to upgrade BIOS and that was a mistake. Previously I had 4.06.26 and now I have 4.06.45 and as you said: it hangs on the megaraid module. I'm trying to locate the old bios just to flash it again. What versions of the bios do you have? As for me 4.06.26 was working (except the ACPI).

Regards

Gorg

I manage to install OpenBSD3.8 on my LH6000 server everything works fine with the default generic.mp kernel
Before that i had RH9 and Fedora 1

anyone found a solution to this?
I tried installing CENTOS 4.3 on my LH3000 and have the same problem.
The installation hangs loading the aic9xxx driver...
any help would be appreciated.
regards,
-eduardo s.m.

This thread is somewhat old, I manage to install Fedora Core 6 on HP NetServer LH3000 flawlessly,
just to anybody who wants to know.
regards,
-eduardo s.m.