From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernd Zeimetz Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:43:30 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Aurora SPARC Linux Build 2.99 (Beta 2 for 3.0) Message-Id: <475156F2.5020205@bzed.de> List-Id: References: <1196454535.3432.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1196454535.3432.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org >> - Systems that boot off qlogic attached disks are not supported, because >> there is no working firmware loader in anaconda, and the qlogic driver >> needs firmware. > > That's very unfortunate, how are qlogic device handled on other > platforms? In Debian you just install the firmware package, udevl will handle it then. If you have to boot from it, you need to rebuild your initrd after installing the firmware package. The installer doesn't support non-free modules yet unfortunately, but with some not too complicated tricks you can install Debian without problems. -- Bernd Zeimetz