On Friday 12 January 2007 23:07, Sandy Drobic wrote: > Rikard Johnels wrote: > > I have an older Intel server with a Mylex RAID card in it. > > The array is 6 drives in RAID 5, no spares. > > The installer complains about not being able to do anything on the array, > > so i got into a rescue kernel boot and used fdisk to make three > > parttitions on it. /dev/rd/c0d0p1 - /boot (ext2) > > /dev/rd/c0d0p2 - swap (swap) > > /dev/rd/c0d0p3 - / (xfs) > > I made the filesystems after syncing the disks. > > > > But the installer doesn't recognize them at all. > > It sees /dev/rd/c0d0 as a full partition, and states it cannot do > > anything with it. > > > > How do i get the table read? > > How do i initialize the array for usage in the installer? > > I am eagerly waiting for the answer as well because I suspect that I > currently have the same problem with an old FSC Primergy 470 with Mylex > DAC960PRL Controller. > Can you delete the partitions and create them in yast again? If not, I > can't update to Suse 10.2 either. > > Sandy > -- > List replies only please! > Please address PMs to: news-reply2 (@) japantest (.) homelinux (.) com
This is how i got around the problem so far;
1. I did a clean install of 10.0 from CD's
This worked perfectly. Both removing the old w2k server partition, and
creating new ones for Linux
2. Added a online repository for 10.2 in Yast, and ran a full upgrade
3. I also tried adding a DVD "mounted" and shared from a XP desktop,
This also works.
So from what i can understand, the partition tool "parted" that is used in
10.2 does NOT work on the RAID partition created from the Mylex BIOS.
This is very cumbersome, not to mention irritating, as i refurbish several
older server systems, and give them a Non-microsoft environment.
Any particular reason as to why SuSE/Novell changed partition manager from
10.0 to 10.2??
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/Rikard
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