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Thank you for the reply. I am a little late receiving it because I had |
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forgotten check this email thread lately. However, I did get it |
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working, and interestingly enough one of your listed problems was the |
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same as I had. It turned out to be the software raid. Apparently |
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software raid inserts header information at block 0 and then stores |
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the array at the end of the partition, and of course as we should all |
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know, silo also wants to use block 0. The only part that was new to me |
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about this process was the fact that raid uses block 0, so of course |
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it's going to conflict with silo. |
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Anyways, I ended up separating off my boot directory to it's own |
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partition and for simplicity, made it the first partition on each |
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disk. Now I have all my partitions working as raid1 except sda1 and |
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sdb1. With these I now just use $(dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/dev/sdb1) |
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anytime I upgrade the kernel or silo. I know there's a way to have |
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silo boot from a different block other than 0, but that task will wait |
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for later play. Right now I'm just happy to have my server up and |
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running at full capacity. |
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Jason |
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On 7/18/05, Pilage <pilage@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> I have had this issue also on a few occasions. do i have solutions? |
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> probably not but they may help you narrow something down. |
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> i will list just 2 cause the others were just config settings and me not |
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> knowing what the heck was going on. |
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> My first time was related to adding an additional scsi controller after |
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> the initial install and the new controller taking over the sda |
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> postion(well sda,b,c and d positions) which made for a pretty wierd |
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> silo.conf to get working. so i know this may sound basic but check to make |
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> sure the machine sees the same devices as what you see them as and are |
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> setting the variables too. |
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> second time related to trying to boot from a software raid. was never able |
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> to get it going that way. with that in mind, if you are trying to boot off |
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> a mirror, try boot off of one of those drives to see if that works. |
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> the others i was able to solve by trying different commands at the ok |
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> prompt to narrow down what the settings should be...hehe trial and error |
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> so to speak. |
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> again just things to try to help narrow it down. |
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> On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 17:45:18 -0500, Jason Williams |
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> <jason.b.williams@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Alright, I cannot boot my machine from the disk. Every time I try I |
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> > get 'The file just loaded does not appear to be executable' and a |
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> > return to the ok prompt; it's not even loading the S. I am not the |
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> > only one experiencing this. There several in the forum that are having |
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> > this problem. User zaanpenguin and I are having the exact same problem |
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> > down to the tee. He's tried various versions of silo, so it does not |
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> > appear to be a version problem. He and I did both recently upgrade our |
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> > OBP to the latest version of 3.31. However, the interesting part is I |
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> > had mine booting with this version until I ran into some disk issues |
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> > and decided to do a full format and surface analysis using the solaris |
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> > install CD. Ever since I put gentoo back on I have not been able to |
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> > boot off the disk. |
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> > For full and much better explanations this forum thread is where |
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> > zaanpenguin and I have been posting: |
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> > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-357797-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-0.html?sid=54fbfa149d0c34e74349d4f2c8f6e6e4 |
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> > We are both getting quite desperate; I appreciate anything anyone can |
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> > do to help. |
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> > Jason |
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