Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

2009-11-30 Thread Yuriy Kuznetsov
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Justin Piszcz jpis...@lucidpixels.comwrote: 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

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

2009-11-30 Thread Yuriy Kuznetsov
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 can not see

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

2009-11-28 Thread Yuriy Kuznetsov
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

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

2009-11-28 Thread Justin Piszcz
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

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

2009-11-28 Thread Justin The Cynical
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: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

2009-11-27 Thread Yuriy Kuznetsov
Hi Nick, On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Nick Douma n.do...@nekoconeko.nl 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

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

2009-11-27 Thread Yuriy Kuznetsov
Hi Justin, On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Justin Piszcz jpis...@lucidpixels.comwrote: 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

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

2009-11-27 Thread Yuriy Kuznetsov
Hi Justin On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 2:41 AM, Justin The Cynical cyni...@penguinness.org 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,

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

2009-11-27 Thread Nick Douma
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Yuriy Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: Hi Nick, On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Nick Douma n.do...@nekoconeko.nl mailto:n.do...@nekoconeko.nl wrote: If your server is anything like mine, your RAID card should abstract the RAID array, and present

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

2009-11-27 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: Hi Justin, On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Justin Piszcz jpis...@lucidpixels.comwrote: 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

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

2009-11-27 Thread Yuriy Kuznetsov
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Justin Piszcz jpis...@lucidpixels.comwrote: On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: Hi Justin, On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Justin Piszcz jpis...@lucidpixels.com wrote: You can also boot a Linux Live CD (or system rescue CD) or knoppix and

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

2009-11-27 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Justin Piszcz jpis...@lucidpixels.comwrote: On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: Hi Justin, On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Justin Piszcz jpis...@lucidpixels.com wrote: You can also boot a Linux

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

2009-11-27 Thread Justin The Cynical
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

Debian can not boot from RAID-1

2009-11-26 Thread Yuriy Kuznetsov
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

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

2009-11-26 Thread Nick Douma
-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

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

2009-11-26 Thread Johnathan Thibodeau
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

2009-11-26 Thread Justin Piszcz
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

Re: Debian can not boot from RAID-1

2009-11-26 Thread Justin The Cynical
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