Translation(s none Installer Compatibility Table This table is a community maintained matrix of Debian Installer builds and their compatibility with various HP Pro Liant systems. This page does not infer official support from HP. Information on official HP support offerings for Debian can be found on There is a HP support documentation about Debian GNU / Linux 6.0 Squeeze installation on Pro Liant servers here. You may need firmware blobs found at here and here and instructions found at installation manual chapter 6.4. System Config Installer Installation Report Summary Jessie DL380 Gen9 Smart Array P440ar, SAS, RAID-1 Jessie- -amd64 Worked fine. Post-install warnings about missing tg3 firmware in update-initramfs: installed firmware-linux-nonfree. DL380 Gen9 Smart Array P440ar, SAS, RAID-6 Jessie- -amd64 (1) Before installation, extract Debian firmware source package and place all tg3 files to root folder of the USB thumb drive for loading network driver during installation (2) Set UEFI BIOS in bootup setting (3) Manual partition during installation, create a 100 MB partition and set as type EFI Worked fine DL320 G5p Serial ATA Jessie- -amd64 Worked fine Wheezy DL360p Smart Array 420i, SAS, RAID-5 Wheezy- -amd64-netinst-wfirmware Worked fine, firmware cd used for tg3 DL360 G2 Smart Array 5i, RAID-0 Wheezy- -i386-netinst-wfirmware The Debian installer complains when it tries to detect the cd-rom/dvd. It says it's unable to detect it or it would just hang on that page. I'm not sure why but to fix it: press alt-f1 then enter. It will take you to a shell - check /dev and mount what you suspect is your optical drive (mount /dev /mnt works, no need for options) and if it works then you're good to go, alt-f2 to go back to the installer menus. I have no idea why this was necessary, I had /dev/cdrom dvd and sg0 and they all.
I've built many of these systems. Your issue is an easy fix. This is an old server, so I wouldn't invest much time, however the HP Pro Liant DL380 G4 was an odd unit. I presume you have a SCSI model with 6 U320 SCSI drive bays in the front. In order to resolve your situation, you should understand that the server has an onboard Smart Array 6i RAID controller embedded on the motherboard. It also has an onboard MPT Fusion SCSI controller (meant for tape or RAW SCSI use through the external VHDCI port). The SCSI controller traditionally only worked if there wasn't anything connected to the 68-pin SCSI connector on the edge of the motherboard (see 1 below). The key to this are the drive backplane and the motherboard connections. There are several cabling options in this system; simplex, duplex and a few bypass arrangements that enable the use of higher-end RAID controllers. You want your backplane-to-motherboard connection to look like this (assuming you wish to see all six drive bays on the motherboard controller). This assumes you don't have any PCI- X cards in the riser cage. If you're seeing drives attached to the SCSI bus from the SCSI Configuration Utility, you may be invoking to the onboard SCSI utility or a ROM utility for an installed PCI card. If you do have a card installed and there's a 68-pin SCSI cable connecting it to the backplane, remove the cable(s) and change to the above configuration. The jumper cable ( 2) is key. Once you get that situated, you will be able to create a logical drive either in the BIOS or by using the Smart Start CD. Windows will recognize the HP CCISS driver without the need to slipstream it into the installer. Also see: HP Pro Liant DL380 G4 Cabling Chart HP Pro Liant DL380 G4 User Guide Edit: Ctrl- A usually corresponds to Adaptec's SCSI Select utility. You probably just have an Adaptec controller in the PCI slot with the drive.
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