Re: [SLE] Installing 3ware 7000-2 RAID card...need help

From: Jim Norton (jrn_at_oregonhanggliding.com)
Date: 08/12/03

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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 21:57:11 -0700 (PDT)

    > I just installed a card earlier...the 7000-2. I got an error during boot
    > saying cannot mount vfs as root.
    >
    > All I did was to hook up the drives to the card and go. I have 2 drives,
    > one I've used for about 1 week and the other I just got today.
    >
    > Did you have to do array work with the card? I just want to mirror my
    > older drive but can't figure out how to do it.
    >
    > Tom
    >
    I'm not sure how to help you here. When I installed 3Ware card and array I
    didn't start with one old drive with data and one new one for mirror and try
    to put them into a mirror raid setup. I started with an IDE drive that was the
    boot drive and added the card and Raid Array - which became a SCSI drive to the
    OS.

    But if your old drive is IDE and it was your boot drive before, and you installed
    that drive plus a new one on the 3Ware card then your boot device is no longer going
    to be /dev/hd? It will be a /dev/sda? or /dev/sdb? ( scsi device ) etc.

    Maybe you could use the Resuce Mode from the SuSE CD to fix your boot device setting?
    Or if you can do it, just insert the SuSE install CD and do the install from scratch?

    -Jim 

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