Re: SUSE 9.1 RAID
From: Juhan Leemet (juhan_at_logicognosis.com)
Date: 07/22/04
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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:55:08 -0200
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 00:22:52 -0400, John Smith wrote:
> I was struggling with SUSE 9.1 RAID5 server installation since last seven
> days with 2.6 kernel on Dell PowerEdge Server.Finally i had an idea.
> I switched to SUSE 9.0 and used same partition and every thing is running
> fine since then.
>
> I had three 146GB SCSI disks and boot and root were respectively 300MB and
> 20 GB rest i used to obtain RAID5 space and got some thing like 240GB.
> On very first boot SUSE 9.1 were giving me problem just freezing on very
> first automatic boot,Six times i installed 9.1
Hmm, that reminds me of a problem that I had with installing SuSE (8.2?
earlier?) on a DELL PowerEdge 1400SC dual P3 machine. For some reason I
had to (or wanted to) rebuild the kernel for some tuning. Then I ran into
trouble because of the boot sequence. To boot SCSI the DELL had to do some
strange stuff, including (it seemed to me) "emulating" IDE disk from the
BIOS so that it could get the kernel, and essential kernel devices (like
the SCSI driver? DOH!). I remember having to jump through some hoops to
rewrite and compress something that looked like a "mini-root" for this
booting sequence. I don't remember the details (not something you do every
day), but there were SuSE notes and web pages that outlined the process.
You haven't by any chance done anything to change kernel? drivers? Wait,
you have RAID5, maybe there's a RAID driver that needs to be loaded? Do
you need anything from the RAID5 while you're booting? or only after?
> Any way SUSE people should feel bad because i just spent 110$ to buy
> professional 9.1.That was my mistake it seems that Novell want every thing
> in hurry.
>
> Any way this was just to let the group know so that nobody else waste money.
Well, like they say: YMMV. I was momentarily chagrined when I couldn't
reboot my DELL 1400SC, but I perservered. Now I'm really happy with it.
I should be getting SuSE 9.1 upgrade any day now... so I might have some
of this kind of "fun" in my future, too. OTOH, I don't have RAID on it.
-- Juhan Leemet Logicognosis, Inc.
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