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On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> Hope it helps... |
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> Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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Immensely! |
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OK, a quick update and keeping it short for now: |
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1) I dumped the RAID install Sunday. It's new hardware and it wasn't |
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booting, I didn't know why but I do know how to install Gentoo without |
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RAID so I went for simple instead of what I wanted. That said the |
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machine still didn't boot. Same "no bootable media" message. After |
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scratching my head for an hour it dawned on me that maybe this BIOS |
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actually required /boot to be marked bootable. I changed that and the |
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non-RAID install booted and is running Gentoo at this time. This is |
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the only machine of 10 in this house that requires that but at least |
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it's a reasonable fix. The machine now runs XFCE & Gnome, X seems fine |
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so far, haven't messed with sound, etc., so the bootable flag was the |
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key this time around. |
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2) Even non-RAID I'm having some troubles with the machine. (kernel |
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bugs in dmesg) I've asked a question in the LKML and gotten one |
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response, as well as on the Linux-RAID list, but I'm not making much |
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headway there yet. I'll likely post something here today or tomorrow |
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in some other thread with a better title having to do with 100% waits |
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for long periods of time. Those are probably non-Gentoo so I am |
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hesitant to start a thread here and bother anyone but I suspect that |
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you or others will probably have some good ideas at least about what |
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to look at. |
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3) I LOVE your idea of managing 3 /boot partitions by hand instead of |
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using RAID. Easy to do, completely testable ahead of time. If I ensure |
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that every disk can boot then no matter what disk goes down the |
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machine still works, at least a little. Not that much work and even if |
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I don't do it for awhile it doesn't matter as I can do repairs without |
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a CD. (well....) |
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4) You're correct that the guide did md4 as striped. I forgot to say |
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that I didn't. I used RAID1 there also as my needs for this machine |
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are reliability not speed. |
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5) Last for now, I figured that once the machine was running non-RAID |
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I could always redo the RAID1 install from within Gentoo instead of |
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using the install CD. That's where I'm at now but not sure if I'll do |
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that yet due to the issue in #2. |
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As always, thanks very much for the detailed post. Lots of good stuff there! |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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