Hello All,
I'm having some trouble installing RC3 using a software RAID setup.
The problem is very bizarre but I think the answer is simple I'm just
missing a set somewhere.
The machine I'm wanting to install is an Athlon-XP 2600 with
512MB or RAM and I have 2 80GB Western Digital drives (both with 8MB
on-board cache) configured to be primary devices on IDE channel 1 and
IDE channel 2. I know the hardware works because I've ran Windows 2000
with a software RAID and Red Hat 8.0 with a software RAID on this same
exact box so it's pretty safe to say my problem is hardware related.
When I start installing Gentoo I have to kick it off with the
"nonet" and "cdcache" options. nonet is needed because my machine hangs
at the detection of NIC card and I throw in cdcache because the cd-rom
drive on that box is really loud and I don't want to generate more noise
then needed. The install kick-off fine and I do a "modprobe md" to load
the software RAID drives no problem. Next I partition my drives the
following way (both drives are partitioned the exact same way):
/dev/had:
/dev/hda1 /boot 100MB
/dev/hda2 swap 512MB
/dev/hda3 /home 20,000MB
/dev/hda4 / 59,000MB
/dev/hdc:
/dev/hdc1 /boot 100MB
/dev/hdc2 swap 512MB
/dev/hdc3 /home 20,000MB
/dev/hdc4 / 59,000MB
Partitioning gives me no problems everything is dandy up to this
point. I want to have my /boot and my /home as a RAID 1 (mirrored)
drive and my / as a RAID 0 (stripped) drive so in the /etc/raidtab file
I put this:
# /boot (RAID 1)
raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
chunksize 32
persistent-superblock 1
device /dev/hda1
raid-disk 0
device /dev/hdc1
raid-disk 1
# / (RAID 0)
raiddev /dev/md2
raid-level 0
nr-raid-disks 2
chunksize 32
persistent-superblock 1
device /dev/hda4
raid-disk 0
device /dev/hdc4
raid-disk 1
# /home (RAID 1)
raiddev /dev/md2
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
chunk-size 32
persistent-superblock 1
device /dev/hda3
raid-disk 0
device /dev/hdc3
raid-disk 1
Nothing fancy just the basic stuff. Next I create my RAID
devices with "mkraid". I make sure the drives have stopped working
between issuing command even though I get a command prompt back while
the devices are being created. I put file-systems on them and I turn
both swap drives on. Doing a "cat /proc/mdstat" shows that all RAID
devices are up and running as expected. Everything looks good. Next I
mount the RAID devices:
mkdir /mnt/gentoo
mount /dev/md2 /mnt/gentoo
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
mount /dev/md0 /mnt/gentoo/boot
I download a stage-1 tarball from ibiblio under /mnt/gentoo and
untar it successfully. I mount the proc directory with "mount -o bind
/proc /mnt/gentoo/proc" successfully also and copy over resolv.conf (cp
/etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf) and my raidtab file (cp
/etc/raidtab /mnt/gentoo/etc/raidtab). I edit my /etc/make.conf file
and I kick off the bootstrap process. Everything is fine up until this
point. My problems begin right after.
When the bootstrap process is done and I do a "df" I get an
error message saying "could not read mounted file system files". If I
type in any command the command never completes it just hangs (not even
CTRL+C can kill it). Once I even manged to do a complete successful
"emerge system" and then I got the same error messages. I'm thinking
that my file system becomes MIA at some point during the bootstrap
and/or the emerge process, however I do NOT get an error messages during
either process about file systems not being able to be found. Can
anyone hint at what I'm doing wrong ? Any feedback would be much
appreciated. I'm completely out of ideas at this point...
-Pete
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