I've got a new PE2950 rack system with PERC controller and 6 drives set up contiguously as one RAID5 volume on the PERC controller.
Using 64-bit CentOS 4.4, I partitioned for /boot having 100 Meg, swap having 2 gig, and / with the rest (removed LVM).
After the install was complete, the system rebooted and just gave me a broken grub prompt (not the graphical Grub boot selector, but grub>).
I fed it root (hd0,0) and setup (hd0) and rebooted.
I then got the grub gui, but also got the following after the attempted kernel boot:
Decompressing Linux...done. Booting the kernel. Red Hat nash version 4.2.1.8 starting sda: asking for cache data failed sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: asking for cache data failed sda: assumint drive cache: write through EXT3-fs error (device sda3): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode=2132343, block=1231234 mount: error 5 mounting none EXT3-fs error (device sda3): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode=123123, block=124324123 EXT3-fs error (device sda3): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode=6353565, block=34634635 WARNING: can't access (null) exec of init ((null)) failed!!!: 14 EXT3-fs error (device sda3): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode=1245546546, block=645243235
umount /initrd/dev failed: 5 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
What might be wrong? Bad hard drive? This, again, is a fresh install, straight off the 64-bit CentOS 4.4 4 CD set.
Thanks.
Scott