Hi,

If your problem is that the machine will not boot, try pulling all the drives 
from the PV220S before turning on the power.

That should boot fine, meaning that your first onboard disk will be /dev/sda 
and then it should boot.

At that point, login as root and change you /etc/fstab to not use /dev/sda, but 
rather LABEL=/boot.
For example, on this server:

# fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 146.6 GB, 146695782400 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 17834 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              14         144     1052257+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3             145        2233    16779892+  83  Linux
/dev/sda4            2234       17834   125315032+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5            2234        4322    16779861   83  Linux
/dev/sda6            4323        5366     8385898+  83  Linux
/dev/sda7            5367        6410     8385898+  82  Linux swap
/dev/sda8            6411        6932     4192933+  83  Linux
/dev/sda9            6933       17834    87570283+  83  Linux

# cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2

# e2label /dev/sda1
/boot
# e2label /dev/sda2
/

Paul






----- Original Message -----
From: "david o'donnell" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: "Jon Smith" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2009 3:28:18 PM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago
Subject: Re: PE6850 boot order problem

My quest is to drive the 5 internal drives in a RAID 10 + 1 hots spare and the 
additional array with no RAID. As I want to use Oracle ASM disks and let the 
ASM instance take care of that. I planned to use split bus on the PV220S and 
have 2 controller cards and match the ASM disks either side. This would be my 
perfect scenario. The LSI cards I have the RAID is optional, so you can set 
then just to be SCSI adaptors.

Can you tell me what is a supported card(s) for the PV220 and also compatible 
with the PE6850 that has a PERC 4e/Di? 

I spent most of the day onto Dell sales to try and find out and only ended up 
searching the website in vain. I am guessing an LSI20320IE but then again I got 
it really wrong before ;-)

Yes, I have learnt a big lesson with the amount of time I have spent 
fruitlessly trying to ge this to connect.


Message: 1
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 12:50:05 -0500
From: <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: Linux-PowerEdge Digest, Vol 61, Issue 2 - PV220 and
    LSI20320-R 
To: <[email protected]>
Message-ID:
    <10640541e96f95458b01ec20981ae0e95de...@ausx3mpc137.aus.amer.dell.com>
Content-Type: text/plain;    charset="iso-8859-1"

I guess my first question is regarding the card itself ?
The aforementioned configuration leads me to think they might be wanting to 
setup a raid 5 with 13 disks.
The card shows it only supports 0 & 1 raid config.

Also it is not a supported controller card for the PV220.

http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/host_bus_adapters/scsi_hbas/lsi20320r/


      

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