I successfully installed CentOS on 3ware 9650SE controller. Due to some issues with compatibility with my motherboard, I replaced it with a 9690SA.
Now the system won't boot (although interestingly enough, it find the boot menu fine, just won't boot past a certain point in the bootup phase.
I thought I would reinstall, but anaconda doesn't find the raid array.
3ware does have drivers on their site, but I'm not too sure how to get them on my system?
Russ
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Ruslan Sivak russ@vshift.com wrote:
I successfully installed CentOS on 3ware 9650SE controller. Due to some issues with compatibility with my motherboard, I replaced it with a 9690SA. Now the system won't boot (although interestingly enough, it find the boot menu fine, just won't boot past a certain point in the bootup phase.
I thought I would reinstall, but anaconda doesn't find the raid array. 3ware does have drivers on their site, but I'm not too sure how to get them on my system?
That controller requires a newer version of the 3ware driver. I'm pretty sure the 5.2 will have that driver. So if you can wait a bit longer...
Regards, Tim
Tim Verhoeven wrote:
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Ruslan Sivak russ@vshift.com wrote:
I successfully installed CentOS on 3ware 9650SE controller. Due to some issues with compatibility with my motherboard, I replaced it with a 9690SA. Now the system won't boot (although interestingly enough, it find the boot menu fine, just won't boot past a certain point in the bootup phase.
I thought I would reinstall, but anaconda doesn't find the raid array. 3ware does have drivers on their site, but I'm not too sure how to get them on my system?
That controller requires a newer version of the 3ware driver. I'm pretty sure the 5.2 will have that driver. So if you can wait a bit longer...
Regards, Tim
For production use, I can, but currently we are testing these servers, and I would like to get them up and running. Is there a way to load a driver on an already running system, or load it for anaconda? Something similar to F6 in windows?
Or do I need to go to the console and install it manually?
Russ
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Ruslan Sivak russ@vshift.com wrote:
Tim Verhoeven wrote:
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Ruslan Sivak russ@vshift.com wrote:
I successfully installed CentOS on 3ware 9650SE controller. Due to some issues with compatibility with my motherboard, I replaced it with a 9690SA. Now the system won't boot (although interestingly enough, it find the boot menu fine, just won't boot past a certain point in the bootup phase.
I thought I would reinstall, but anaconda doesn't find the raid array. 3ware does have drivers on their site, but I'm not too sure how to get them on my system?
That controller requires a newer version of the 3ware driver. I'm pretty sure the 5.2 will have that driver. So if you can wait a bit longer...
Regards, Tim
For production use, I can, but currently we are testing these servers, and I would like to get them up and running. Is there a way to load a driver on an already running system, or load it for anaconda? Something similar to F6 in windows?
Yes, anaconda supports the concept of a driver disk.
http://www.centos.org/docs/2/rhl-ig-as-x86-en-2.1/ch-driverdisk.html
And 3ware offers a disk image download for 9690SA/RHEL5.
Jeff wrote:
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Ruslan Sivak russ@vshift.com wrote:
Tim Verhoeven wrote:
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Ruslan Sivak russ@vshift.com wrote:
I successfully installed CentOS on 3ware 9650SE controller. Due to some issues with compatibility with my motherboard, I replaced it with a 9690SA. Now the system won't boot (although interestingly enough, it find the boot menu fine, just won't boot past a certain point in the bootup phase.
I thought I would reinstall, but anaconda doesn't find the raid array. 3ware does have drivers on their site, but I'm not too sure how to get them on my system?
That controller requires a newer version of the 3ware driver. I'm pretty sure the 5.2 will have that driver. So if you can wait a bit longer...
Regards, Tim
For production use, I can, but currently we are testing these servers, and I would like to get them up and running. Is there a way to load a driver on an already running system, or load it for anaconda? Something similar to F6 in windows?
Yes, anaconda supports the concept of a driver disk.
http://www.centos.org/docs/2/rhl-ig-as-x86-en-2.1/ch-driverdisk.html
And 3ware offers a disk image download for 9690SA/RHEL5.
Thank you. I noticed that they said in the docs to install by using linux dd. 3ware provides a zip file with the drivers, not a disk image, AFAIK. I burned the contents of the zip to a cd, but anaconda fails to recognize it. It keeps complaining about not being able to find a fat or a ext3 filesystem on the driver disk.
I don't have a floppy drive, only a cdrom and a flash drive. Do I need to get a floppy drive in order for this to work?
Russ
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Ruslan Sivak russ@vshift.com wrote:
Jeff wrote:
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Ruslan Sivak russ@vshift.com wrote:
Tim Verhoeven wrote:
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Ruslan Sivak russ@vshift.com wrote:
I successfully installed CentOS on 3ware 9650SE controller. Due to some issues with compatibility with my motherboard, I replaced it with a 9690SA. Now the system won't boot (although interestingly enough, it find the boot menu fine, just won't boot past a certain point in the bootup phase.
I thought I would reinstall, but anaconda doesn't find the raid array. 3ware does have drivers on their site, but I'm not too sure how to get them on my system?
That controller requires a newer version of the 3ware driver. I'm pretty sure the 5.2 will have that driver. So if you can wait a bit longer...
Regards, Tim
For production use, I can, but currently we are testing these servers, and I would like to get them up and running. Is there a way to load a driver on an already running system, or load it for anaconda? Something similar to F6 in windows?
Yes, anaconda supports the concept of a driver disk.
http://www.centos.org/docs/2/rhl-ig-as-x86-en-2.1/ch-driverdisk.html
And 3ware offers a disk image download for 9690SA/RHEL5.
Thank you. I noticed that they said in the docs to install by using linux dd. 3ware provides a zip file with the drivers, not a disk image, AFAIK. I burned the contents of the zip to a cd, but anaconda fails to recognize it. It keeps complaining about not being able to find a fat or a ext3 filesystem on the driver disk.
I don't have a floppy drive, only a cdrom and a flash drive. Do I need to get a floppy drive in order for this to work? Russ
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Perhaps you can download RHEL 5.2 from Red Hat Network, if you are a customer there will be no problem but if you're not, maybe you can sign out for 30 day trial and then download the ISOs, burn it and test your box and share your results, it will be enough time for CentOS 5.2 to be available, so then you can be sure to run a production system.
https://www.redhat.com/wapps/sso/rhn/login.html?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Frhn.re...
I got almost the same issue with an Asus mainboard...that's my 2 cents.
Cya.
Victor.
Victor Padro wrote:
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Ruslan Sivak <russ@vshift.com mailto:russ@vshift.com> wrote:
Jeff wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Ruslan Sivak <russ@vshift.com <mailto:russ@vshift.com>> wrote: Tim Verhoeven wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Ruslan Sivak <russ@vshift.com <mailto:russ@vshift.com>> wrote: I successfully installed CentOS on 3ware 9650SE controller. Due to some issues with compatibility with my motherboard, I replaced it with a 9690SA. Now the system won't boot (although interestingly enough, it find the boot menu fine, just won't boot past a certain point in the bootup phase. I thought I would reinstall, but anaconda doesn't find the raid array. 3ware does have drivers on their site, but I'm not too sure how to get them on my system? That controller requires a newer version of the 3ware driver. I'm pretty sure the 5.2 will have that driver. So if you can wait a bit longer... Regards, Tim For production use, I can, but currently we are testing these servers, and I would like to get them up and running. Is there a way to load a driver on an already running system, or load it for anaconda? Something similar to F6 in windows? Yes, anaconda supports the concept of a driver disk. http://www.centos.org/docs/2/rhl-ig-as-x86-en-2.1/ch-driverdisk.html And 3ware offers a disk image download for 9690SA/RHEL5. Thank you. I noticed that they said in the docs to install by using linux dd. 3ware provides a zip file with the drivers, not a disk image, AFAIK. I burned the contents of the zip to a cd, but anaconda fails to recognize it. It keeps complaining about not being able to find a fat or a ext3 filesystem on the driver disk. I don't have a floppy drive, only a cdrom and a flash drive. Do I need to get a floppy drive in order for this to work? Russ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org <mailto:CentOS@centos.org> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centosPerhaps you can download RHEL 5.2 from Red Hat Network, if you are a customer there will be no problem but if you're not, maybe you can sign out for 30 day trial and then download the ISOs, burn it and test your box and share your results, it will be enough time for CentOS 5.2 to be available, so then you can be sure to run a production system.
https://www.redhat.com/wapps/sso/rhn/login.html?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Frhn.re...
I got almost the same issue with an Asus mainboard...that's my 2 cents.
Cya.
Victor.
It's probably a good idea for me to know how to do this from scratch. Plus I want to see if there's a difference in performance between the stock driver and the 3ware driver. I'm going to try giving 3ware a call to see how to install this. Their support is usually excellent.
Russ
on 6-6-2008 10:48 AM Ruslan Sivak spake the following:
Victor Padro wrote:
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Ruslan Sivak <russ@vshift.com mailto:russ@vshift.com> wrote:
Jeff wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Ruslan Sivak<russ@vshift.com mailto:russ@vshift.com> wrote:
Tim Verhoeven wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Ruslan Sivak <russ@vshift.commailto:russ@vshift.com> wrote:
I successfully installed CentOS on 3ware 9650SE controller. Due to some issues with compatibility with my motherboard, I replaced it with a 9690SA. Now the system won't boot (although interestingly enough, it find the boot menu fine, just won't boot past a certain point in the bootup phase. I thought I would reinstall, but anaconda doesn't find the raid array. 3ware does have drivers on their site, but I'm not too sure how to get them on my system? That controller requires a newer version of the 3ware driver. I'm pretty sure the 5.2 will have that driver. So if you can wait a bit longer... Regards, Tim For production use, I can, but currently we are testing these servers, and I would like to get them up and running. Is there a way to load a driver on an already running system, or load it for anaconda? Something similar to F6 in windows? Yes, anaconda supports the concept of a driver disk.http://www.centos.org/docs/2/rhl-ig-as-x86-en-2.1/ch-driverdisk.html
And 3ware offers a disk image download for 9690SA/RHEL5. Thank you. I noticed that they said in the docs to install by using linux dd. 3ware provides a zip file with the drivers, not a disk image, AFAIK. I burned the contents of the zip to a cd, but anaconda fails to recognize it. It keeps complaining about not being able to find a fat or a ext3 filesystem on the driver disk. I don't have a floppy drive, only a cdrom and a flash drive. Do I need to get a floppy drive in order for this to work? Russ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.orgmailto:CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Perhaps you can download RHEL 5.2 from Red Hat Network, if you are a customer there will be no problem but if you're not, maybe you can sign out for 30 day trial and then download the ISOs, burn it and test your box and share your results, it will be enough time for CentOS 5.2 to be available, so then you can be sure to run a production system.
https://www.redhat.com/wapps/sso/rhn/login.html?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Frhn.re...
I got almost the same issue with an Asus mainboard...that's my 2 cents.
Cya.
Victor.
It's probably a good idea for me to know how to do this from scratch. Plus I want to see if there's a difference in performance between the stock driver and the 3ware driver. I'm going to try giving 3ware a call to see how to install this. Their support is usually excellent.
Russ
I don't think their driver is better, as they regularly refresh their driver to the kernel maintainers. It is just that the newer cards take a bit of time to get to the disk images. Another thing you might be able to do is install to a drive that is not on the raid card and install their driver and migrate to the array.
I just looked at their website, and they do have a driver disk image. If you don't have a floppy, you can usually do a network install and get the driver disk image also from the network. It is in the install docs I believe.
Scott Silva wrote:
on 6-6-2008 10:48 AM Ruslan Sivak spake the following:
Victor Padro wrote:
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Ruslan Sivak <russ@vshift.com mailto:russ@vshift.com> wrote:
Jeff wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Ruslan Sivak <russ@vshift.com <mailto:russ@vshift.com>> wrote: Tim Verhoeven wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:51 PM, RuslanSivak <russ@vshift.com mailto:russ@vshift.com> wrote:
I successfully installedCentOS on 3ware 9650SE controller. Due to some issues with compatibility with my motherboard, I replaced it with a 9690SA. Now the system won't boot (although interestingly enough, it find the boot menu fine, just won't boot past a certain point in the bootup phase.
I thought I would reinstall, but anaconda doesn't find the raid array. 3ware does have drivers on their site, but I'm not too sure how to get them on my system? That controller requires anewer version of the 3ware driver. I'm pretty sure the 5.2 will have that driver. So if you can wait a bit longer...
Regards, Tim For production use, I can, butcurrently we are testing these servers, and I would like to get them up and running. Is there a way to load a driver on an already running system, or load it for anaconda? Something similar to F6 in windows?
Yes, anaconda supports the concept of a driver disk.http://www.centos.org/docs/2/rhl-ig-as-x86-en-2.1/ch-driverdisk.html
And 3ware offers a disk image download for 9690SA/RHEL5. Thank you. I noticed that they said in the docs toinstall by using linux dd. 3ware provides a zip file with the drivers, not a disk image, AFAIK. I burned the contents of the zip to a cd, but anaconda fails to recognize it. It keeps complaining about not being able to find a fat or a ext3 filesystem on the driver disk.
I don't have a floppy drive, only a cdrom and a flash drive. Do I need to get a floppy drive in order for this to work? Russ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org <mailto:CentOS@centos.org> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centosPerhaps you can download RHEL 5.2 from Red Hat Network, if you are a customer there will be no problem but if you're not, maybe you can sign out for 30 day trial and then download the ISOs, burn it and test your box and share your results, it will be enough time for CentOS 5.2 to be available, so then you can be sure to run a production system.
https://www.redhat.com/wapps/sso/rhn/login.html?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Frhn.re...
I got almost the same issue with an Asus mainboard...that's my 2 cents.
Cya.
Victor.
It's probably a good idea for me to know how to do this from scratch. Plus I want to see if there's a difference in performance between the stock driver and the 3ware driver. I'm going to try giving 3ware a call to see how to install this. Their support is usually excellent.
Russ
I don't think their driver is better, as they regularly refresh their driver to the kernel maintainers. It is just that the newer cards take a bit of time to get to the disk images. Another thing you might be able to do is install to a drive that is not on the raid card and install their driver and migrate to the array.
I just looked at their website, and they do have a driver disk image. If you don't have a floppy, you can usually do a network install and get the driver disk image also from the network. It is in the install docs I believe.
The ones on their standard download page are not compatible with Xen kernels according to the release notes. The ones to be used for Xen kernels on x64 is this one: http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15257
That only has a zip file, not an image file.
Russ
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The ones on their standard download page are not compatible with Xen kernels according to the release notes. The ones to be used for Xen kernels on x64 is this one: http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15257
That only has a zip file, not an image file.
Russ
Then you might just have to wait, or do a base install to a separate drive, install the driver, and migrate the whole thing to the raid. Or just run the base OS off of the separate drive for the initial tests and keep the Domu images on the raid array. Either way, 5.2 will probably (maybe?) be out by the 3rd week of June.
The ones on their standard download page are not compatible with Xen kernels according to the release notes. The ones to be used for Xen kernels on x64 is this one: http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15257
That only has a zip file, not an image file.
Russ
http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15257 is the files that go on a driver disk. I just dl'd it and opened it. I know there is a way to use a driver disk from other media, but I can't find it, and I'm sure someone on list will remember how.
Scott Silva wrote:
The ones on their standard download page are not compatible with Xen kernels according to the release notes. The ones to be used for Xen kernels on x64 is this one: http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15257
That only has a zip file, not an image file.
Russ
http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15257 is the files that go on a driver disk. I just dl'd it and opened it. I know there is a way to use a driver disk from other media, but I can't find it, and I'm sure someone on list will remember how.
Yes these are the files I was using. It wouldn't let me install with these files on a usb drive or a cdrom, but it worked fine when I put them on a floppy. I then did an upgrade install of CentOS, and was able to boot into the system.
The only issue now seems to be that I still can't boot the xen kernel with it. I tried manually copying the 3w-9xxx.ko from /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.el5/updates to /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.1.21.el5xen/updates, but that didn't seem to help.
Do I need to mkinitrd or something?
Russ
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Ruslan Sivak russ@vshift.com wrote:
Scott Silva wrote:
The ones on their standard download page are not compatible with Xen kernels according to the release notes. The ones to be used for Xen kernels on x64 is this one: http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15257
That only has a zip file, not an image file.
Russ
http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15257 is the files that go on a driver disk. I just dl'd it and opened it. I know there is a way to use a driver disk from other media, but I can't find it, and I'm sure someone on list will remember how.
Yes these are the files I was using. It wouldn't let me install with these files on a usb drive or a cdrom, but it worked fine when I put them on a floppy. I then did an upgrade install of CentOS, and was able to boot into the system. The only issue now seems to be that I still can't boot the xen kernel with it. I tried manually copying the 3w-9xxx.ko from /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.el5/updates to /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.1.21.el5xen/updates, but that didn't seem to help.
Do I need to mkinitrd or something?
Maybe not 100% useful, but I had trouble installing CentOS on a machine with a 9690SA as recently as tonight - who has floppy drives anymore? (Well, I did, but all my floppies were unusable, big shock..)
The trick was to use the method explained on this site to turn the files in the driver download from 3ware into an image: http://www.openfusion.net/linux/network-driver-images
Upload it to somewhere accessible via the Internet or your local network. Then all I had to do was boot with the parameter: linux dd=http://somewhere.com/filename
Good to know that dd supports http and ftp out of the box and not just local media.
Vidar
on 6-6-2008 3:32 PM Vidar Normann spake the following:
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Ruslan Sivak <russ@vshift.com mailto:russ@vshift.com> wrote:
Scott Silva wrote: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ones on their standard download page are not compatible with Xen kernels according to the release notes. The ones to be used for Xen kernels on x64 is this one: http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15257 That only has a zip file, not an image file. Russ http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15257 is the files that go on a driver disk. I just dl'd it and opened it. I know there is a way to use a driver disk from other media, but I can't find it, and I'm sure someone on list will remember how. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yes these are the files I was using. It wouldn't let me install with these files on a usb drive or a cdrom, but it worked fine when I put them on a floppy. I then did an upgrade install of CentOS, and was able to boot into the system. The only issue now seems to be that I still can't boot the xen kernel with it. I tried manually copying the 3w-9xxx.ko from /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.el5/updates to /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.1.21.el5xen/updates, but that didn't seem to help. Do I need to mkinitrd or something?Maybe not 100% useful, but I had trouble installing CentOS on a machine with a 9690SA as recently as tonight - who has floppy drives anymore? (Well, I did, but all my floppies were unusable, big shock..)
The trick was to use the method explained on this site to turn the files in the driver download from 3ware into an image: http://www.openfusion.net/linux/network-driver-images
Upload it to somewhere accessible via the Internet or your local network. Then all I had to do was boot with the parameter: linux dd=http://somewhere.com/filename
Good to know that dd supports http and ftp out of the box and not just local media.
I knew someone would remember how to use a driverdisk image over a network!
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 12:32:47AM +0200, Vidar Normann wrote:
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Ruslan Sivak russ@vshift.com wrote:
Scott Silva wrote:
http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15257 is the files that go on a driver disk. I just dl'd it and opened it. I know there is a way to use a driver disk from other media, but I can't find it, and I'm sure someone on list will remember how.
Yes these are the files I was using. It wouldn't let me install with these files on a usb drive or a cdrom, but it worked fine when I put them on a floppy. I then did an upgrade install of CentOS, and was able to boot into the system. The only issue now seems to be that I still can't boot the xen kernel with it. I tried manually copying the 3w-9xxx.ko from /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.el5/updates to /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.1.21.el5xen/updates, but that didn't seem to help.
Do I need to mkinitrd or something?
Maybe not 100% useful, but I had trouble installing CentOS on a machine with a 9690SA as recently as tonight - who has floppy drives anymore? (Well, I did, but all my floppies were unusable, big shock..)
The trick was to use the method explained on this site to turn the files in the driver download from 3ware into an image: http://www.openfusion.net/linux/network-driver-images
Cool, citation! Glad that was useful to someone.
Cheers, Gavin
Ruslan Sivak wrote:
Scott Silva wrote:
The ones on their standard download page are not compatible with Xen kernels according to the release notes. The ones to be used for Xen kernels on x64 is this one: http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15257
That only has a zip file, not an image file.
Russ
http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15257 is the files that go on a driver disk. I just dl'd it and opened it. I know there is a way to use a driver disk from other media, but I can't find it, and I'm sure someone on list will remember how.
Yes these are the files I was using. It wouldn't let me install with these files on a usb drive or a cdrom, but it worked fine when I put them on a floppy. I then did an upgrade install of CentOS, and was able to boot into the system. The only issue now seems to be that I still can't boot the xen kernel with it. I tried manually copying the 3w-9xxx.ko from /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.el5/updates to /lib/modules/2.6.18-53.1.21.el5xen/updates, but that didn't seem to help.
Do I need to mkinitrd or something?
depmod -a <kernel_version>
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