<br><br><b><i>Chuck Campbell <campbell@accelinc.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> I have a new machine I'm trying to install Centos 5.0 on and I'm not getting<br>very far.<br><br>The system is 2 dual core xeons (5160, 3.0 GHZ) w/ 8GB ram. It has two<br>320 GB disks on the motherboard controller (Supermicro X7DAE+), and 8 750<br>GB disks on a 3ware 9650SE-8ml, pcie (x4) controller card. The 8 disks are<br>set up as two raid 5 volumes (4 disks each).<br><br>There is a scsi card in the machine w/ nothing attached to it.<br><br>The graphics card is na NVIDIA Quadro FX 1500 (pci express x16).<br><br>The intent is to install the OS onto the 2-320GB drives on the motherboard<br>controller (preferrably in a raid 1 configuration). The other disks are for<br>our data requirements.<br><br><br>1)I used bit torrent (azureus on windows) to download the dvd iso for Centos<br> 5.0,
and it completed without any errors. I believe it does the checksumming <br> verification automatically. I also ran sha1sum against the image, and it <br> came out fine.<br><br>2)I burned the image to a dvd using roxio. No errors. When I couldn't get<br> down the road, I burned another copy with no errors.<br><br>3)During the install, I verified the media with no errors for both of the<br> disks.<br><br>4)I downloaded the driver for this OS and raid card from AMCC-3ware site and<br> made a driver floppy.<br><br>5)I booted the dvd and ran "linux dd" to do the install.<br><br> Should the graphical installer work on an nvidia quadro fx1500 graphics <br> card? At the present it doesn't appear to work for me, I get hash all <br> over the screen, once X starts.<br><br>6)I booted the dvd again and ran "linux text dd". I verified my dvd media <br> without problems, and it reads the driver floppy and loads the 3w-9xxx<br> driver. It asks questions about
lang, kbd and timezone. <br><br>7)For partitions, I selected custom, created a /boot, /, swap and /home on<br> the first 320 GB disk (it turns out to be sdc, with sda and sdb being the<br> big raid volumes). After the grub section (I told it to put grub on<br> the /boot partition) the screen is blue, and it just sis without any further <br> response (I left it over night, so it should have finished).<br><br>8)If I press alt-f3, the last thing I see is:<br> 13:18:16 INFO : Moving (1) to step reposetup<br><br>9)If I press alt-f4, the last thing I see is:<br> <5>SQUASHFS error : sb_bread failed reading block 0x6acc<br> <5>SQUASHFS error : unable to read page, block 1aaa0d9, size 9154<br><br>8)I'm at a loss as to what to try next, or how to find out what is wrong.<br><br></blockquote><br>Chuck,<br><br>I'm suprised that the raid array wasn't named as<br>/dev/mapper/isw_xxxyyyxxx<br><br>to be named as /dev/sdc suggests that anaconda didn't use
dmraid.<br>To be sure that the installer missed using dmraid, you could do a quick knoppix (4.0+) live session and try to mount and read the fakeraid array named above.<br><br>If you don't find the isw_ device, then you will have to redo the install, adding the dmraid kernel parameter along with "dd text dmraid".<br><br>As far as the blank screen, while in the knoppix session try to see if your xorg.conf is missing a modeline. If missing, add a modeline suitable for your monitor.<br><br>Section Screen<br> ...<br> Modes "1280x1024"<br>EndSection<br><br>-- <br>Mark<br><br>RT3 RPM for C5<br>http://www.tlviewer.org/rt3<br><p>
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