[CentOS] Speaking of 3Ware/RAID/SATA/9550SX...

Wed Jul 12 17:24:17 UTC 2006
Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz at lucidpixels.com>


On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Chris Mauritz wrote:

> Mark Schoonover wrote:
>> I just built up a server running CentOS 4.3, and trying to boot from a 
>> 3Ware
>> 9550SX-16ML, 16 port card. This system has 9x500GB drives, AMD Opteron, 
>> Tyan
>> K8SD mobo and 1 GB of ram. I downloaded the latest (9.3.0.4) driver from
>> 3Ware, and after a couple of botched attempts, I got CentOS installed. In 
>> my
>> two botched attempts, the problem was X hanging during the formatting of 
>> the
>> drives, so I switched to another virtual screen while formatting took 
>> place,
>> and the system didn't freeze.
>> 
>> My problem now is the system won't boot. I know this is not exactly a 
>> CentOS
>> problem, I'm just hoping some kind sole would help me outta this overworked
>> fog I'm in. When the system tries to boot, the cursor just sits there in 
>> the
>> left corner of the screen flashing. Nothing happens. I am probably missing
>> something very simple, that will cause me great public embarrassment, but I
>> really don't care right now.
>> 
>> Yes, I set the bios to boot from the 3Ware card, and CentOS install did 
>> show
>> grub stage(1) and stage(2) getting installed. After that, I'm not exactly
>> sure where to look. I googled, and went through the 3Ware KB, but not much
>> luck there...
>> 
>
> Do you have the array set up as one big 4.5gig partition?
>
> Not sure if this will help, but have you tried putting /boot on a separate 
> small (100-200mb) partition?
>
> Also, just out of curiosity, what case are you using and did it come with 
> drive cages that were already ML friendly?
>
> Cheers,
>
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You mean 4.5T? Yeah I'd also recommend setting up an ext2/3 /boot in the 
beginning of the disk to boot from.  Not sure how grub/lilo would handle 
being installed on a 4.5T partition.  I am also curious about what 
case/cooling/etc you have implemented?