Tony,
trying to make the XS do raid (which it does (/did?) not support by default) I learned the following: Linux softraid (aka dmraid) is 'better' / 'more stable' than mother board vendor's fakeraid, so disable raid in bios and let linux dmraid take care of it. I don't know enough about ahci to comment on that option. Since you apparently want to install to a raid 1 you'll need to 'spin' your own personalized XS distribution. my noob approach: set up a working fedora system (on other hardware than your target system - you may need to go back to this fedora system to make changes to your new setup). Get the files necessary for making your own: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Building_Software distribution A hands-on kickstart tutorial: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/08/19/kickstart.html - the "Creating the Kickstart Config File, ks.cfg" section gives you some food for thought. For the more grafically oriented looking at RedHat / Fedora's "Revisor" tool might be interesting (a quick intro can be found here: http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/70-Fedora-7-Custom-Spins-with-Revisor.html) Good luck Stefan To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 09:31:32 -0700 CC: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Problems installing XS on new system for Uruguay Martin, I'll try the "lspci" commands to see what it says. What "dmesg" should I look for? -- when I do: dmesg | grep "sd"[ab] I get that it finds both /sda and /sdb individually, so not detecting the RAID mode. The "autoinstall' fails either because of the Radeon X1200 or the "clearpart" command on Line 23. I've burned a copy of XS-160-noauto if you want me to try that. I've been scanning the Fedora forums for "dmraid" support, and it doesn't look like it has support for this SB600 SATA RAID controller. Uruguay = EduBlog/Ceibal/Greg Smith. I am building the server to Greg's request, so whatever he is now calling this project that is what it is. Thanks Tony Pearson Senior Storage Consultant, IBM System Storage™ Telephone: +1 520-799-4309 | tie 321-4309 | Cell: +1 520 990-8669 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GSA: http://tucgsa.ibm.com/~tpearson Blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/InsideSystemStorage AKA: 990tony Paravane, eightbar specialist "Martin Langhoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/05/2008 08:41 AM To Tony Pearson/Tucson/[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc [email protected] Subject Re: [Server-devel] Problems installing XS on new system for Uruguay 2008/6/5 Tony Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hardware: Nice hw! But the sata controler might not be supported. When you load F8 64-bit or Ubuntu, - what does lspci say about the SATA controller? - what kernel module loads for it? (dmesg will name it) > Problem 1: I boot from XS-163.iso and select "Run from Image" (the first > choice) and it claims that "ATI Radeon 1200" is not supported, and that it It often complains about graphics cards. Nothing to worry about - Compiz won't be enabled on the XS ;-) > Problem 2: I log in as "root" and run the "./olpc-install" and it fails on > line 23 saying "Specified nonexistent disk sda in clearpart command" with a > big red button to "reboot". (see attached JPG file: img_4751b.jpg for > screen shot) Recent images are "auto install" so you don't need to run olpc-install by hand... > Would that work? If I do that, would I be better off doing Fedora7-AMD64 > instead or stay with the 32-bit version? Unfortunately, we have a few custom packages that are compiled 32-bit only (nothing too bad, just a recompile away) - but I think your problem is with missing drivers in F7. Can you try installing F7 32bits? > Problem 3: the BIOS supports three settings: IDE, RAID and AHCI. With > RAID, I can hit Ctrl-F to get to the FastBuild utility, and put the two > drives into a single RAID-1 configuration, however, it does not seem that > Linux recognizes that. With the two drives as one Logical RAID-1 drive, the > Linux treats this as separate /dev/sda and /dev/sdb drives. No idea bout AHCI or fakeraid - sorry Now - one point I'd like to understand better - when you say "for uruguay" you don't mean the Ceibal team, right? (From OLPC perspective, if you talk about schoolservers in Uruguay, the Ceibal team is what I think of...). You are doing this for the Edublog Uruguay team... yes? cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _________________________________________________________________ Lustige Emoticons für Ihren Messenger! Hier kostenlos downloaden! http://messenger.live.de/mein/
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