EFW Support

Hi Endian People,

I'm having problems installing the Endian Community 2.5.1 release onto my LS21 IBM Blade.
That Blade does have a "IBM LSI SAS Expansion Card, Prod. Num. 39y9187" installed. It does not have
any internal hard drives, it gets a slice of my RAID mounted at boot time.

There seems to be no driver available on the Endian CD for that SAS expansion card  :'(
The installer does not find any disks that can be used for installation - it refers to /dev/ and keeps asking me if I would like to use that disk (but its obviously not a disk...).

But I thought of something:
If i am not mistaken endian is based on red hat - I am pretty sure IBM does have a Linux driver for that expansion card for Red Hat Linux
and I know from other linux distributions that its possible to load a driver before booting into installation mode.

Even if this sounds like a silly question, but:
if the IBM Support can provide me a red hat driver for my expansion card, will it work with Endian 2.5.1? And how can I load such a driver before booting?
Is that something worth to think of or will I get stuck with such an idea? I am using the Endian community edition for quite a while now at several locations and I really would like to keep it that way  :-\

Thanks in advance for any hint provided,
Michael

same problem with  Dell R300 SAS 6/iR  (LSI SAS 1068e)

Are you guys able to install on your servers? I am having the same issue with Cisco Cisco UCS C220 M3 Server with raid controller UCSC SAS 2008M-8i,LSI SAS 9266-8i 8.

Any ideas?