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Nick Smith wrote: |
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>>>Surely, all the bootloader needs to know about is /boot? |
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>>>On my alpha I had no end of trouble trying to use XFS for /, |
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>>>until I realised that the bootloader only understood ext2. |
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>>>The solution was to make a separate ext2 partition for /boot, |
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>>>put the kernels there. |
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>well i just followed the handbook and created sda1 = swap and sda2 = ext3 = / |
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>does this mean im wasting my time on this very slloooow install and |
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>that its not even going to boot when im finished? or does the boot |
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>loader see ext3 as well? |
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>also i thought that it saw all my drives, but the bios ( or what alpha |
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>calls a bios ) see's all 3 9gig drives, but gentoo only see's sda, |
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>when i went looking in /dev/ it only has the nods for sda and sda1 and |
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>sda2 for some reason, i found a tips and tricks on the gentoo.org |
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>website on how to make raid nods, but that didnt seem to work for sdb |
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>and sdc. is this normal for alpha to only see the first drive? is |
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>there a way to make the nods to actually make use of the other drives |
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>in the system? |
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I don't know if the bootloader can boot off ext3 partitions; I've never |
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tried. You'll have to dig into the docs to find out. |
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To resolve SCSI problems, check if the kernel can see your devices by |
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looking at the output of "dmesg". If it shows all devices, then you're |
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nearly there. But if not, missing device nodes are the least of your |
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problems. And no, it is not normal for only the first drive to be seen; |
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I have two drives both of which have always shown up in dmesg. |
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So please post the relevant bits of dmesg output, including the SCSI |
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controller and all devices. |
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I'd try to partition your sdb and sdc, make filesystems on them, and |
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copy lots of data onto them to ensure that the hardware's behaving. |
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After all, this machine was probably built in the last millenium. |
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Only if that works would I try to get RAID working (and I'd try just |
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striping or mirroring sdb and sdc on their own first, before attempting |
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the / filesystem). |
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Andrew. |
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