Everyone,
I am trying to install a Centos 6.0 system on a SuperMicro with an LSI MegaRaid SCSI 320-2 controller.
I had originally tried to install 6.4, but the 6.4 install DVD does not boot with this configuration. See : http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5377
Fortunately, the 6.0 install DVD worked fine until it failed to identify the hard disc controller. I checked the lsi.com site which had a driver for RH 3 and RH4, but not 5 and not 6.
The interesting thing about this machine is that I had Centos 5.0 installed without difficulty (that over time upgraded to 5.9)
Does anyone have any idea of a driver I could use to get Centos 6.0 up and running.
Thanks!!!!
Greg Ennis
Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
I am trying to install a Centos 6.0 system on a SuperMicro with an LSI MegaRaid SCSI 320-2 controller.
I had originally tried to install 6.4, but the 6.4 install DVD does not boot with this configuration. See : http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5377
I don't think you understand how to use it. First, BEFORE YOU TRY TO INSTALL, use the firmware option while it's getting up - I think it's <ctrl-R>, and create a logical drive, whatever RAID level you want, with spares if it's not just RAID 1. Tell it to initialize (you can do a quick initialize). Then exit that, and it'll reboot, and Linux will see it presented by the controller as one physical drive, and it should be happy.
mark
Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
I am trying to install a Centos 6.0 system on a SuperMicro with an LSI MegaRaid SCSI 320-2 controller.
I had originally tried to install 6.4, but the 6.4 install DVD does not boot with this configuration. See : http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5377
I don't think you understand how to use it. First, BEFORE YOU TRY TO INSTALL, use the firmware option while it's getting up - I think it's <ctrl-R>, and create a logical drive, whatever RAID level you want, with spares if it's not just RAID 1. Tell it to initialize (you can do a quick initialize). Then exit that, and it'll reboot, and Linux will see it presented by the controller as one physical drive, and it should be happy.
mark
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Mark,
Thank you for your response. You are correct in that I may not understand how to configure the LSI, but I had some help that was very familiar with the LSI controller, but not familiar with Linux.
Actually the configuration key is <ctrl-M> or <ctrl-H>, and we did create a RAID Level 1; we also did an initialization that resulted in a 100% a consistency check.
After this, I expected to be able to start the 6.0 install, but when the install disc got to the point of evaluating the hard discs it did not find any, and gave me a prompt screen allowing me to select a driver from a list, or add a driver via a floppy disc. There were (maybe four) LSI drivers in their list, and I tried all of them without success.
Thanks again, any other ideas ??????
Greg
Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
I am trying to install a Centos 6.0 system on a SuperMicro with an LSI MegaRaid SCSI 320-2 controller.
I had originally tried to install 6.4, but the 6.4 install DVD does not boot with this configuration. See : http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5377
I don't think you understand how to use it. First, BEFORE YOU TRY TO INSTALL, use the firmware option while it's getting up - I think it's <ctrl-R>, and create a logical drive, whatever RAID level you want, with spares if it's not just RAID 1. Tell it to initialize (you can do a quick initialize). Then exit that, and it'll reboot, and Linux will see it presented by the controller as one physical drive, and it should be happy.
Thank you for your response. You are correct in that I may not understand how to configure the LSI, but I had some help that was very familiar with the LSI controller, but not familiar with Linux.
Actually the configuration key is <ctrl-M> or <ctrl-H>, and we did create a RAID Level 1; we also did an initialization that resulted in a 100% a consistency check.
After this, I expected to be able to start the 6.0 install, but when the install disc got to the point of evaluating the hard discs it did not find any, and gave me a prompt screen allowing me to select a driver from a list, or add a driver via a floppy disc. There were (maybe four) LSI drivers in their list, and I tried all of them without success.
Thanks again, any other ideas ??????
If it's any help, some googling suggests that the 320 is what Dell rebranded as a PERC 4. It's kind of possible that there are 32-bit drivers for it - it does seem to be an old controller, though.
The firmware for the controller *is* presenting one logical drive, correct?
I also found this: http://www.lsi.com/support/Pages/download-search.aspx, so you might mouse around and see what you can find. I see it's on that page under legacy storage, btw.
Good luck.
mark
Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
I am trying to install a Centos 6.0 system on a SuperMicro with an LSI MegaRaid SCSI 320-2 controller.
I had originally tried to install 6.4, but the 6.4 install DVD does not boot with this configuration. See : http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5377
I don't think you understand how to use it. First, BEFORE YOU TRY TO INSTALL, use the firmware option while it's getting up - I think it's <ctrl-R>, and create a logical drive, whatever RAID level you want, with spares if it's not just RAID 1. Tell it to initialize (you can do a quick initialize). Then exit that, and it'll reboot, and Linux will see it presented by the controller as one physical drive, and it should be happy.
Thank you for your response. You are correct in that I may not understand how to configure the LSI, but I had some help that was very familiar with the LSI controller, but not familiar with Linux.
Actually the configuration key is <ctrl-M> or <ctrl-H>, and we did create a RAID Level 1; we also did an initialization that resulted in a 100% a consistency check.
After this, I expected to be able to start the 6.0 install, but when the install disc got to the point of evaluating the hard discs it did not find any, and gave me a prompt screen allowing me to select a driver from a list, or add a driver via a floppy disc. There were (maybe four) LSI drivers in their list, and I tried all of them without success.
Thanks again, any other ideas ??????
If it's any help, some googling suggests that the 320 is what Dell rebranded as a PERC 4. It's kind of possible that there are 32-bit drivers for it - it does seem to be an old controller, though.
The firmware for the controller *is* presenting one logical drive, correct?
I also found this: http://www.lsi.com/support/Pages/download-search.aspx, so you might mouse around and see what you can find. I see it's on that page under legacy storage, btw.
Good luck.
mark
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Mark,
Thanks for your help. I will take a look. I was wondering if I may need to get a more recent controller?
Greg
Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
I am trying to install a Centos 6.0 system on a SuperMicro with an LSI MegaRaid SCSI 320-2 controller.
I had originally tried to install 6.4, but the 6.4 install DVD does not boot with this configuration. See : http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5377
I don't think you understand how to use it. First, BEFORE YOU TRY TO INSTALL, use the firmware option while it's getting up - I think it's <ctrl-R>, and create a logical drive, whatever RAID level you want, with spares if it's not just RAID 1. Tell it to initialize (you can do a quick initialize). Then exit that, and it'll reboot, and Linux will see it presented by the controller as one physical drive, and it should be happy.
Thank you for your response. You are correct in that I may not understand how to configure the LSI, but I had some help that was very familiar with the LSI controller, but not familiar with Linux.
Actually the configuration key is <ctrl-M> or <ctrl-H>, and we did create a RAID Level 1; we also did an initialization that resulted in a 100% a consistency check.
After this, I expected to be able to start the 6.0 install, but when the install disc got to the point of evaluating the hard discs it did not find any, and gave me a prompt screen allowing me to select a driver from a list, or add a driver via a floppy disc. There were (maybe four) LSI drivers in their list, and I tried all of them without success.
Thanks again, any other ideas ??????
If it's any help, some googling suggests that the 320 is what Dell rebranded as a PERC 4. It's kind of possible that there are 32-bit drivers for it - it does seem to be an old controller, though.
The firmware for the controller *is* presenting one logical drive, correct?
I also found this: http://www.lsi.com/support/Pages/download-search.aspx, so you might mouse around and see what you can find. I see it's on that page under legacy storage, btw.
Thanks for your help. I will take a look. I was wondering if I may need to get a more recent controller?
Depends on your budget. If software raid works for you, Linux's own md works very nicely. DON'T USE the Intel fakeraid. More money: a Dell PERC 6 or 7 - they're also rebranded LSI's, and work fine, and we use CentOS 5 and 6 almost exclusively, and have had no trouble.
mark
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