On 5/24/2010 4:10 AM, CList wrote:
I have been trying to install CentOS 5.4 on a Intel SR1530SHS, Intel
S3200SH
mainboard.. It has a 3 x 1TB sata hotswap drives with LSI software raid onboard.
I had configured the LSI to have Sata0 and Sata1 with raid 1 and the
third
drive as a hotspare drive.
Format the harddisk and installation was a breeze. The server rebooted
into
a blank screen and the cursor just keep blinking.
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I've had this problem on an Intel board when I had hard drives on the motherboards SATA ports and some on the motherboards silicon image SATA ports. The bios seemed to swap the order the drives were present to grub so it couldn't boot. I would either get a blinking cursor or GRUB. I ended up putting all the drives on a LSI PCI Express card and everything just worked. However in your situation it sounds like you only have drives on the LSI controller.
I would try booting into resuce mode with the CentOS installation CD. You can do this by typing linux rescue. Have it search and mount the CentOS installation. Look at /boot/grub/device.map and make sure hd0 references the correct /dev/sd device. Also chroot /mnt/sysimage and try grub-install /dev/sd
Ryan,
I followed your instruction, but it is still not working. Any other suggestion?
Have you considered using software raid instead? I would take a reinstall, but IMO an easier/better solution over built-in and low-end HW raid controllers. Dan