Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Justin The Cynical < cyni...@penguinness.org> wrote: > Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: > >> Hi Justin, >> >> This is the problem: system does not boot at all; it goes as far as DRAC >> check and stopped; it does not even try to load the kernel. >> It looks like the system

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: > > Hi Justin, >> >> This is the problem: system does not boot at all; it goes as far as DRAC >> check and stopped; it does not even try to load the kernel. >> It looks like the system can not

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: Hi Justin, This is the problem: system does not boot at all; it goes as far as DRAC check and stopped; it does not even try to load the kernel. It looks like the system can not see RAIDs at all. May be I need to install some Dell modules for my RAID controller to be re

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: Hi Justin, This is the problem: system does not boot at all; it goes as far as DRAC check and stopped; it does not even try to load the kernel. It looks like the system can not see RAIDs at all. May be I need to install some Dell modules for my RAI

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

Hi Justin, This is the problem: system does not boot at all; it goes as far as DRAC check and stopped; it does not even try to load the kernel. It looks like the system can not see RAIDs at all. May be I need to install some Dell modules for my RAID controller to be recognized as one of he boot o

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: Check that the megaraid_sas driver is loading. When I installed Etch, I had to rebuild the initrd with that module after the initial install. Could advice on how I can check this please? I reckon that this is my problem as when system is trying to boot - it looks like i

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: Hi Justin, On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Justin Piszcz wrote: You can also boot a Linux Live CD (or system rescue CD) or knoppix and fd

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: > > Hi Justin, >> >> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Justin Piszcz > >wrote: >> >> >>> You can also boot a Linux Live CD (or system rescue CD) or knoppix and >>> fdisk -l - make sure you have

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: Hi Justin, On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Justin Piszcz wrote: You can also boot a Linux Live CD (or system rescue CD) or knoppix and fdisk -l - make sure you have a bootable partition and its the same one on each of the raid-1 disk members.

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Yuriy Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: > Hi Nick, > > On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Nick Douma > wrote: > > If your server is anything like mine, your RAID card should abstract > the RAID array, and present it as a single

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

Hi Justin On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 2:41 AM, Justin The Cynical wrote: > Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: > > In short: >> Dell Power Edge 2970; 6X3" HDDs: 2-RAID1, 4-RAID5 >> > > Etch on a 2950 at work. Sounds pretty close so it's promising ;-) > > > Installed latest Debian on RAID1, which is VD-00.

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

Hi Justin, On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > You can also boot a Linux Live CD (or system rescue CD) or knoppix and > fdisk -l - make sure you have a bootable partition and its the same one on > each of the raid-1 disk members. > > Justin. > Now when I go with rescue CD

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

Hi Nick, On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Nick Douma wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > If your server is anything like mine, your RAID card should abstract > the RAID array, and present it as a single disk. I have this on a Dell > server with 3 discs in RAID5. > Yes,

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: In short: Dell Power Edge 2970; 6X3" HDDs: 2-RAID1, 4-RAID5 Etch on a 2950 at work. Installed latest Debian on RAID1, which is VD-00. Installation went through without any issue. After installation system can not boot. Checked BIOS and there are only 3 options to boo

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

On Thu, 26 Nov 2009, Johnathan Thibodeau wrote: Hello Yuriy, My experience has mostly been with software RAID, where in the case of RAID1 the kernel and initrd are just loaded off of one of the drives, basically ignoring the fact that it has a mirrored twin elsewhere... But I'll try to be

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

Hello Yuriy, My experience has mostly been with software RAID, where in the case of RAID1 the kernel and initrd are just loaded off of one of the drives, basically ignoring the fact that it has a mirrored twin elsewhere... But I'll try to be helpful :) Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: Hi, In short:

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If your server is anything like mine, your RAID card should abstract the RAID array, and present it as a single disk. I have this on a Dell server with 3 discs in RAID5. Did you by any chance install GRUB into the partition header instead of the MBR?

Debian can not boot from RAID-1

Hi, In short: Dell Power Edge 2970; 6X3" HDDs: 2-RAID1, 4-RAID5 Installed latest Debian on RAID1, which is VD-00. Installation went through without any issue. After installation system can not boot. Checked BIOS and there are only 3 options to boot from: CD-ROM, NIC, Drive C(I'm not sure where d