On 04.11.2013 12:44, Sorin Srbu wrote:
Anyway, BackupPC is my preferred backup-solution, so I went ahead to install another favourite, CentOS 6.4 - and failed.
The raid controller is a Highpoint RocketRAID 2740 and its driver is suggested to be prior to starting Anaconda by way of "ctrl-alt-f2", at which point Anaconda freezes.
Hi Sorin,
Please check this page, if you have the driver from the manufactured it shows you how to load it: https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/...
I've come so far as installing Fedora 19 and having it see all the hard-drives, but it refuses to create any partition bigger than approx. 16 TB with ext4.
Yes, RedHat puts in this artificial limit. They say they do not support volumes larger than this and recommend XFS instead, which is what I recommend as well.
I've never had to deal with this big raid-arrays before and am a bit stumped.
Any hints as to where to start reading up, as well as hints on how to proceed (another motherboard, ditto raidcontroller?), would be greatly appreciated.
Just a thought - I maintain a CentOS destop oriented remix and have an ISO with the kernel from elrepo.org (kernel-ml): http://li.nux.ro/download/ISO/Stella6.4_x86_64.1_kernel-ml.iso It's not tested much but the kernel might be new enough to support the raid card, if you can install it you could keep using it; "changing it" it to CentOS is trivial.
HTH Lucian