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Christian Affolter wrote: |
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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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Ofcourse: |
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megasas: 00.00.02.04 Fri Feb 03 14:31:44 PST 2006 |
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megasas: 0x1028:0x0015:0x1028:0x1f03: bus 2:slot 14:func 0 |
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ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0e.0[A] -> GSI 78 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 |
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scsi2 : LSI Logic SAS based MegaRAID driver |
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Vendor: FUJITSU Model: MAX3147RC Rev: D206 |
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Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 |
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Vendor: FUJITSU Model: MAX3147RC Rev: D206 |
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Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 |
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Vendor: DP Model: BACKPLANE Rev: 1.00 |
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Type: Enclosure ANSI SCSI revision: 05 |
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Vendor: DELL Model: PERC 5/i Rev: 1.00 |
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Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 |
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SCSI device sdb: 285474816 512-byte hdwr sectors (146163 MB) |
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sdb: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled |
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sdb: asking for cache data failed |
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sdb: assuming drive cache: write through |
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SCSI device sdb: 285474816 512-byte hdwr sectors (146163 MB) |
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sdb: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled |
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sdb: asking for cache data failed |
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sdb: assuming drive cache: write through |
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sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 |
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sd 2:2:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb |
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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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gregorcy wrote: |
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> I had the same issue with the PERC 5i card and gentoo. What happened |
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> was the LiveCD saw the drive as /dev/sdb but when I installed and then |
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> rebooted it came up as /dev/sda. I just pointed my grub.conf at the |
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> /dev/sda and it booted correctly. |
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That has already been tried but thanks anyway. As I said in the first |
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mail, at the point where the root device can't be mounted I may open a |
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simple shell. And with that I can see /dev/sda and /dev/sdb but no |
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numbers after (for partitions). |
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Steve Dommett wrote: |
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> The kernel is telling you the size of the disk it sees. Can you not |
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> deduce the answer to your question from this info? |
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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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Actually this is not the exact size that the PERC RAID UI says. They do |
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differ. In the PERC BIOS the logical drive is 139392 MB. |
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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 |
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>> can. |
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> Yes, that was just a stab in the dark. More caffeine has now proven to |
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> me how foolish that must have sounded. |
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:) |
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> But, unabashed, I shall offer another stab in the dark: is it |
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> possible this new server is using an EFI partition table, rather than |
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> MS-DOS compatible? Try to ensure CONFIG_EFI _PARTITION is set in your |
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> kernel. |
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Where in the kernconf GUI is that? Or where is the kernel configuration |
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on the filesystem? |
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Thanks, |
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