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I have a dell poweredge 2300 server with on board raid controller and SCSI drives. I am having trouble getting the installation going. I can boot with the raid.s kernel so that I can recognize my logical drive, but If I do that I loose support for my SCSI cdrom so I can't use the cd as the source for the cdrom. I can also boot with xfs.s and that will give me cdrom support but then I loose support for my drives. My server does not have an ide controller so installing from an ide cdrom is not an option.
Is there a way for me to get the best of both worlds out of these to kernels. I need raid and SCSI support. I have tried several other kernels and raid.s is the only one that will recognize my raid controller.
I would like it if I could somehow create a custom boot kernel because I have three of these server laying around and would like to have linux on them.
I saw a similar thread to this but no solution was given other than to try to find an ide controller.
Any help that you could give me would be much appreciated.
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