Some comments.
If you need to press F1, and then it boots, I'd say grub is fine, but
the BIOS does not boot on the right device. Can you simply change
something to the BIOS boot order and get a straight boot ?
/dev/mapper/ -> you're still using the "big device" virtualization
layer on the CF.
I managed to get a number of things running, e.g. Squeeze Server, which
is a -lot- quicker than on my PC However, I just couldn't get the root
pointer correct so I thought the best things was to reinstall.
I did this with setting my own partitions and this seems fine, except
that on boot the mac
VolGroup00 sounds like and LVM system ? From afar you can consider LVM
is same as RAID; it federates multiple volumes to create a big one. You
surely don't need that on a CF, and most probably on the server. As with
RAID there are drawbacks an admin may want to cope with, but not the
casual user.
NeilT;548939 Wrote:
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> Regarding disk formats, linux has to be on Ext2, 3 or 4. I don't really
> know what the difference is. I have my HDD formatted as Fat32 because I
> also access if from windows machines over the network. You can do this
> with Ext formatted drives, but its a lot harder to
GParted should give you loads of text, then a graphical window similar
to what you see in the bottom of the screenshots at
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php. If it isn't then I
think it has stopped loading. Don't know why. But if you've managed to
format your drives anyway it doesn't
Well, I seem to have had a degree of success. Thanks to you all for the
tips and forbearance. There are some open questions.
I started a new install prior to NeilTs advice and selected the manual
partition option. I reckon I have made a settings error, however, since
I can boot from the CF wi
and I would recommend an early form of Ubuntu (8.04) because it will
have Grub rather than Grub2 - much easier to edit.
Neil
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Shellness;548773 Wrote:
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> I have no means of formatting the HDDs short of buying a USB-to-SATA
> cable hence I am going through this routine (plus, as you say, it is a
> learning experience). I thought I might be able to format the HDD by
> putting it in my lap top but my laptop uses ATA. Li
Thanks again for the replies. I wonder whether you can comment on where
I am going wrong in reloading the OS (or better still, how to get the
boot to work from the CF without requiring the USB to be plugged in).
Thinking that I may have had a corrupted ISO that caused me to get the
GRUB prompt I
+1: replug everything as it is intended to be in the end, setup the BIOS
as is intended too (esp. HDD order), then reinstall from USB.
This being said:
- Sorry the previous attempt didn't work out.
- It seems you did fine with nano; The differences you saw were
normal; you should have touched on
I had (what I think is) a similar problem to you this weekend and it
took me hours to work it out. As Epoch1970 says above I think your
original problem is that the identifiers for the drives have changed
when you put the hard drives in from what they were when you installed
ClearOS.
I have a si
Thanks for the "commenting out" explanation - it will be a few more
hours before I can try it since I have hit the buffers again. After
reloading the OS from the USB the system will only boot with the USB
attached. If I adjust the BIOS to boot from the CF the system just
gives me the GRUB prompt
Shellness;548576 Wrote:
> I didnt grasp the commenting out direction(*) and could not find
> anything helpful on the internet.
Basically there will be a line in the /etc/fstab file that tells the
system to mount the hard drive. The file supports comments, which
means you can add text to th
I didnt grasp the commenting out direction(*) and could not find
anything helpful on the internet. Consequently I attempted to follow
epochs suggestion and I think I must have made some duff entries as
the machine failed to boot (the final text on the console screen at end
of the boot attempt
Shellness;547167 Wrote:
> If I boot with the HDDs unattached everything goes fine. If I boot with
> the HDDs attached, and the BIOS set to disable the SATAs, everything
> goes fine -but- it is booting from the HDD.
You can try this.
- boot the system without HDDs attached.
- run "mount" and see
Out of curiosity, I did some research on ClearOS since I had never heard
of it. I see that it is a new name for Clark Connect, which was based
on RedHat Linux. I also see that none of their documentation (based on
a quick perusal) doesn't really help with this situation.
Another thing you might
No problem. I'm glad to see you are being persistent with this issue.
You'll figure it out and you'll learn a lot from it!
Ultimately, what you are trying to do here is format the hard disc so
it doesn't have a boot partition on it. So let's attack it from that
angle.
If it were me, the next
Thanks for your patience. The prompt after booting is [r...@server
~]#. I did cd / and got [r...@server /]#. I.e. the sole change
is the swap from ~ to / following the server name.
I then tried -umount /dev/sdb1- and got the response -umount: /: device
is busy-. I retried yesterday
If you have any programs running or command prompts open, make sure that
you are not in a directory that is on the mounted drive. I've done that
myself a bunch of times. Execute the umount command from the root
directory ("cd /" will get you there).
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Rich
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Setup: 2 SB3s, 4
Thanks for the reply and explanation of disc size. Meanwhile, I keep
hitting buffers. Using -umount /dev/sda1- got the response -umount: /:
device is busy-.
I looked around the internet and found the commands -fuser u
/dev/sdb1- and then -fuser k /dev/sdb1- which each returned the root
prompt
Shellness;547229 Wrote:
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> - 2) both SDA & SDB are 1Tb yet the size is shown as 916Gb & 902 Gb
> respectively Ive lost nearly 100Gb per HDD
>
No you haven't.
Drive makers mean '1,000,000,000,000' when they say it is a terabyte.
Computers like powers of 2, not 10. So, 916Gb = 916 *1024 *
The hard drive is mounted. You can't format it while it is mounted.
Use the command "umount /dev/sda1" to unmount it. Then try your format
command.
It probably recognizes it as a formatted disk and is auto mounting it.
Hopefully that gets you out of your situation.
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Rich
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Unfortunately Im still stuck. The BIOS doesnt offer a boot priority
as such, it offers boot sequence (with Enabling/Disabling per item). I
managed to format SDA but I just cannot format SDB which has the boot on
it. When I type the following commands I get the subsequent
statements:
fdisk /d
Glad you are having some success. It sounds like you are almost there.
That's strange - it seems that the BIOS is ignoring the fact that you
have told it to disable the SATA ports.
Does the BIOS have an option to set a priority to each boot device. If
so, you would want to make sure that the C
Thanks for the reply.
I started again, reloading everything from scratch, and it worked. I
still have a problem, however.
If I boot with the HDDs unattached everything goes fine. If I boot
with the HDDs attached, and the BIOS set to disable the SATAs,
everything goes fine -but- it is booting f
When I setup my system, I received my IDE/CF adaptor before my flash
card. To try things out, I grabbed an old 2GB card I had for my
camera. It seemed to install, but failed miserably when it booted. I
was worried, but it worked fine when I got the new card.
What are the specs of the card that
I thought I was going to report back that everything went well.
However
I wonder whether you can spot where I have gone wrong
and advise on what to do, please?
I got an 8Gb CF to use in place of the 2Gb and everything went
swimmingly, things seemed to install fine until I was asked to
No formatting required. The OS installation will format the card as one
of its steps.
I used an 8GB flash card with a speed of 233x from Ridata. 2GB might
be a little tight. I would limit the size of you install. For
instance, I wouldn't install the full desktop package.
Flash cards have a
Interesting, thanks.
You say you did no preparation of the CF beforehand. Does this mean
you didn't even format it?
What size is the CF you use? Mine is 2Gb. The ClearOS ISO is just
over 700Mb.
Thanks.
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I have a similar setup on one of my servers. The approach that I took
was to first only install the CF card in the system and run the Linux
installation. This would ensure that the OS would only install files
on the CF card. Afterwards, I would connect the hard drive(s) and go
through the proce
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