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Patrik Jansson wrote: |
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> Hi list, |
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> |
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Good day and welcome to Gentoo! |
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> I may boot the Live CD without problems and from there I can install |
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> the system. The drives (RAID-1) is shown as device /dev/sdb |
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At this point does an 'lsmod' give any further clues? For instance is |
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the LiveCD using the same driver for the RAID you are expecting to use |
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after the reboot? |
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> |
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> (sub question: this cannot be just one of the two drives in the RAID |
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> right? I guess the PERC won't allow direct access to just ONE drive) |
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I'm quite prepared to be entirely wrong. It's been years since I |
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installed to a PERC, and I believe it was a PERC4 when I last tried, but |
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I seem to remember being offered all of the physical disks as separate |
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drives. |
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Let's continue assuming I'm incorrect and you should be seeing just a |
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single logical drive. |
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> |
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> sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled |
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> sda: asking for cache data failed |
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> sda: assuming drive cache: write through |
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Looks good for a battery backed RAID card. Although you've been |
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referring to /dev/sdb3 in your mail. |
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> SCSI device sda: 285474816 512-byte hdwr sectors (146163 MB) |
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Is that the correct total size of the logical drive, or of one of the |
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physical drives? |
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> sda: unknown partition table |
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Ouch! Something is very wrong here. I don't think you're going much |
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further until this one gets fixed. |
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Are you sure you're running the same driver for the card as was used |
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during the install? |
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Maybe you could try using genkernel to build the kernel, which will also |
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create an initrd to autoload most needed modules just like the LiveCD. |
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Also, I doubt if this is necessary with a hardware RAID controller, but |
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perhaps emerge'ing device-mapper is necessary. Perhaps also mdadm too, |
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but I'm even more doubtful about that one. |
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Cheers, |
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Steve. |
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