On Friday 01 March 2019 09:52:52 Pete Biggs wrote:
Just as an added bit of information (because I see you are getting avc issues as well).
I often see this when using Intel firmware raid - it basically comes down to the initialisation of the RAID being a quite long process and if initialisation and installation is happening at the same time everything fights for disk bandwidth. A new installation on a new 1 Tb RAID 1 can take 4 or 5 hours.
I usually just let it get on with its stuff and I come back in a few hours (I've got plenty of other things to do!). Sometimes, if I know I'll have to watch the install or if I'm trying new things, I'll boot into a live CD and let the RAID initialisation happen there.
Thanks for this Pete. Last time I built a server of this size, I did it at the end of the day and went home. This time it was time critical as I'm replacing 2 dead servers, so I was doing it during the day and watching.
It was just so frustrating at 7pm having seen the post-installation for over 2 hours. Just out of interest it would have been nice to know exactly when it did happen, but we'll never know.