This article is powered by Bruno Savioli
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Hi there,
I had the same problem, but in my case on a 1950.
The driver in question is megaraid_sas, at least with my 1950.
I poste a message a while ago saying exactly what I had done to fix it.
See it below.
It should work with the 2950 as well.
(note: after testing on Dell PE 2950 by hughr[hughr_going at hotmail.com], this is true.)
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I tried to install debian etch on a 1950 yesterday, the installation
worked pretty well, but it froze during boot up.
As is guessed, the initrd that comes with etch doesn have megaraid_sas
on it.
I figured out a small "hack" if you still want to use initrd(I haven't
used yaird and I didn't have the option to do so during my install)
When the installation finishes, do not restart the machine.
Press CTRL+F2 and go the shell
"MAKE SURE YOU chroot INTO THE RIGHT ROOT PARTITION BEFORE RUNNING THESE
COMMANDS"
$chroot to the root /target/"something" partition.
Edit "/etc/initramfs-tools/modules" and add "megaraid_sas" to the end of
file.
Copy /boot/initrd.img-2.6.XXXX to /boot/initrd.img-2.XXXX.old
Run "update-initramfs -u" to update the current initrd to include the
megaraid_sas modules.
Reboot.... and that's it. A working debian etch on Dell 1950.
I'm not sure if this has already been reported to Debian, I'll check it
later.
Hope this helps.
Bruno Savioli