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>> Hmm, are you sure that your RAID has been recognized correctly? In |
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>> case you don't have another RAID-set or a standalone disk/CD Rom, your |
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>> RAID-set should be accessible as /dev/sda. So what's behind /dev/sda |
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>> in your case? |
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> No, I'm not. But I cannot access /dev/sda. |
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> From a terminal (LiveCD booted): |
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> # fdisk /dev/sda |
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> Unable to open /dev/sda |
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Can you provide the SCSI/RAID related dmesg output from the live-CD? |
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Do you have a SCSI-CD Rom or an IDE/(S)ATA one? |
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> I may access /dev/sdb though (that's why the I installed Gentoo on sdb). |
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>> So, to summarize: Check that your RAID set has been recognized |
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>> properly before installing with the live-CD. Investigate why you only |
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>> have one SCSI device in contrast to two on the live CD (missing SCSI |
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>> CD-ROM support?). |
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> I'm not sure how to do that. I'm not even sure if /dev/sdb is the actual |
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> RAID or just one of the drives? But when I come to think about it... |
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> when I try to boot the system, the Dell server actually boots from the |
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> logical drive and it do find the kernel, hence /dev/sdb is infact the |
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> RAID, right? |
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> I also removed one of the drives, tried to boot (it finds the kernel), |
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> then I removed the other drive and rebooted and it still finds the kernel). |
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Ok, I would also assume that your mirroring RAID-set is working then ;) |
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> > Also, I doubt if this is necessary with a hardware RAID controller, |
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> > but perhaps emerge'ing device-mapper is necessary. Perhaps also |
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> > mdadm too, but I'm even more doubtful about that one. |
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> I can't see how this could make any difference when I can't even mount |
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> the root device? Anyway, I'm desperate and will try this as soon as I can. |
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No, those utilities won't be necessary as you're running a hardware |
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RAID, their supposed to create/manage software RAIDs. |
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Have you ever tried to use /dev/sda in your grub config and fstab (as |
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your kernel recognizes an sda SCSI disk) ? |
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regards |
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Chris |
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