Talk:HP Proliant Microserver

I just migrated my HP N54L to Gentoo - and I found it pretty hard. Maybe we should add a few things:

It is best to use UUIDs in the fstab. I have four big disk in the bay and another big one plus a small SSD in the top. As the sata bay gets the device names sda1 .. 4, the root partitions is likely to be pushed around. On thing that did cost me a lot of time, was the fact, that I need to add an initramfs, so that the kernel could locate the root partition irrespective of the SSDs device name. Another thing is, that it is not so obvious, which devices must be enabled. There is the Tigon4 network card, then there is the 4225 mobility Radeon graphics adaptor. My unlucky decision was to fix the graphis later - so I could not see the important error messages, when the mounting of the rootfs failed. And it is still unclear to my, why the two hard disks in the top cassette end up as hda1 and hda2... anyway, Gentoo runs great on the machine.

I have taken notes and could supply more details, if somebody found that useful.