Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: 21Nov04 sarge-i386-netinst.iso rc2 uname -a: Linux Mars 2.6.8-1-386 #1 Thu Nov 25 04:24:08 UTC 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Date: 15Dec04 19.00 Method: Netinst http://mirror.ox.ac.uk Machine: ProServe MLS Processor: 3.2GHz 3.2GHz Intel P4 Prescott (dual) Memory:512Mb Root Device: ATA Disk Maxtor 6Y080P0 Root Size/partition table: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 543 273640+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 544 19813 9712080 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 544 10231 4882720+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 10232 16044 2929720+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 16045 19038 1508944+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda8 19039 19813 390568+ 83 Linux Output of lspci and lspci -n: 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #1 (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #2 (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3 (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #4 (rev 02) 0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2) 0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Bridge (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) Ultra ATA 100 Storage Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB (ICH5R) SATA (cc=RAID) (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0326 (rev a1) 0000:02:01.0 Communication controller: NetMos Technology: Unknown device 9805 (rev 01) 0000:02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 0000:02:04.0 Communication controller: Intel Corp. 536EP Data Fax Modem 0000:02:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Lucent Microelectronics FW323 (rev 61) 0000:02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet Controller (rev 01) Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot worked: [O] Configure network HW: [O] Chose to manually configure Config network: [O] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [O] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [0] Create file systems: [O] Mount partitions: [E] Problem mounting RAID device - see below Install base system: [O] Install boot loader: [O] Reboot: [O] Comments/Problems: 2 SATA 120Gb drives configured during install as RAID1 device - all seemed fine with the partitioning However, during the first reboot, it failed to fsck /dev/md0 and therefore wouldn't mount it - from dmesg: SCSI subsystem initialized sbp2: $Rev: 1219 $ Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Capability LSM initialized md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: md0 stopped. EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on hda8, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on hda5, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on hda6, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. I hit Cntl-D to continue booting. The system installed OK with /home on the / partition instead of /dev/md0 as per partitioning during install. Looking back through the archive I found a post from Laurent CARON re: raid which explained how to manually create a raid array and so I did the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo mdadm -Cv /dev/md0 -n2 -l1 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 mdadm: /dev/sda1 appears to be part of a raid array: level=1 devices=2 ctime=Wed Dec 15 23:43:56 2004 mdadm: /dev/sdb1 appears to be part of a raid array: level=1 devices=2 ctime=Wed Dec 15 23:43:56 2004 mdadm: size set to 120053632K Continue creating array? y mdadm: array /dev/md0 started. I then edited /etc/fstab and did: $ mount -a $ df -h which gave the right result: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 251M 110M 129M 46% / tmpfs 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda8 358M 8.1M 331M 3% /tmp /dev/hda5 4.6G 299M 4.1G 7% /usr /dev/hda6 2.8G 94M 2.6G 4% /var /dev/md0 113G 33M 107G 1% /home However, after reboot I get the same error: EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock So, I'm a bit stuck. Googling produced posts on booting from a RAID partition. All I'm trying to do is mount a RAID1 partition on an installed system. Any pointers would be appreciated. The other problem that arose was when installing the 2.6.8-1-386-smp kernel - I got a kernel panic. I've yet to tackle this but will post in due course. For the install I booted "expert26" and it dealt with the SATA drives with no problem - great thanks ;) Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
