http://darkness.codefu.org/wordpress/2006/09/22/247 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:34:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://darkness.codefu.org/wordpress/2006/09/22/247#comment-26850 darkness » Making a remote Dell PE1600SC at The Planet use software RAID Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:15:38 +0000 http://darkness.codefu.org/wordpress/2006/09/22/247#comment-26850 [...] Also, for people like me on a DRAC III, you’ll want to comment out any bootsplash or hiddenmenu lines, you don’t need any serial console (I commented out both serial and terminal lines for GRUB and also removed console=... parameters to the kernel). You may want to bump up the timeout. Additionally, DRAC III users will need to add i8042.dumbkbd=1 to the kernel “command line.” [...] [...] Also, for people like me on a DRAC III, you’ll want to comment out any bootsplash or hiddenmenu lines, you don’t need any serial console (I commented out both serial and terminal lines for GRUB and also removed console=… parameters to the kernel). You may want to bump up the timeout. Additionally, DRAC III users will need to add i8042.dumbkbd=1 to the kernel “command line.” [...]

]]> http://darkness.codefu.org/wordpress/2006/09/22/247#comment-10595 darkness » Rescue: Linux and the Dell DRAC Sun, 19 Nov 2006 06:16:28 +0000 http://darkness.codefu.org/wordpress/2006/09/22/247#comment-10595 [...] i8042.dumbkbd=1 is necessary on the DRAC as I have explained before. nfsroot tells the kernel first what path to mount (the server IP is given later), then NFS options. Despite nfsroot.txt seeming to say that any option you can give when mounting an NFS mount point normally can be given here, I found at least one that didn’t (mountvers=3; rw is not accepted either, though I don’t think that’s a mount option specific to NFS). Further, when the kernel sees an option it doesn’t recognize, it stops parsing. So make sure it doesn’t bitch about any of your NFS options. (In my case, I had something like ...rw,tcp. I always ended up with UDP, until I realized I needed to take rw out.) Note that I’ve forced NFS over TCP, since I’m going to be doing NFS over the Internet. I also left rsize/wsize to 1024 because I’m not terribly concerned about performance. [...] [...] i8042.dumbkbd=1 is necessary on the DRAC as I have explained before. nfsroot tells the kernel first what path to mount (the server IP is given later), then NFS options. Despite nfsroot.txt seeming to say that any option you can give when mounting an NFS mount point normally can be given here, I found at least one that didn’t (mountvers=3; rw is not accepted either, though I don’t think that’s a mount option specific to NFS). Further, when the kernel sees an option it doesn’t recognize, it stops parsing. So make sure it doesn’t bitch about any of your NFS options. (In my case, I had something like …rw,tcp. I always ended up with UDP, until I realized I needed to take rw out.) Note that I’ve forced NFS over TCP, since I’m going to be doing NFS over the Internet. I also left rsize/wsize to 1024 because I’m not terribly concerned about performance. [...]

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