I am trying to install Centos 5.3 x64_64 on old DELL server
PE 2850 with RAID 1 & 5 voluomes ON PERC 4/DC DUAL CHANNEL RAID CARD
Install can not see Raid Volumes
The server can still boot with the old OS RH EL 2x and RAID and Raid volumes are fine
I just got my new server today (a Dell Poweredge 2850), and I'm trying to install the latest version of Ubuntu on it, however it fails to detect my hard drives. They are in a raid array (raid 1 I believe). I've never worked with a raid array before, and I'm wondering, is there anything special I have to do to install Ubuntu on one?
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View 2 Replies View RelatedFC11 i386 dvd iso image passes pgp verify. Burns fine and verifies fine under nero. Boots fine and verifies fine on my athlon system and installs just fine. Not one issue at all. 1374 pkgs install without issue. Take the same disc put it into my dell poweredge 2850 (dual xeon) and the disc fails to verify.
Even if I go ahead and try to install, it will boot and go through the menus. Then on package install at some point it will say one is corrupt and halts the install. Yet ubuntu 9.04 installs just fine on it. So I don't see how it could be the dvd player itself, though not 100% ruled out.
I am trying to get a understanding of how to install a RAID 1 on a Dell Power Edge server.
HARDWARE:
2 - 16gig SCSI dives
1 - 36gig SCSI drive
I have read through some documentation found online and at centos.org but still having problems.
get this accomplished keeping in mind this is my first go at using RAID system.
I am trying to install Centos onto a Poweredge 2650, with Dell Poweredge Expandable Raid Controller. I have 5 SCSI disks installed, and have created and initialised 2 logical volumes via the SCSI controller setup utility (Ctrl M after boot). After reboot the system reports two logical volumes present.
The Centos installer cannot find any disks when it gets to the disk partitioning/setup step. It reports no disks present. Do I need a specific driver for this controller?
I have been trying to convert our backup web server, Dell PowerEdge 2850, from Windows 2003 to Ubuntu.The box had been hosting a couple of web sites for the past 4 years. It was light stuff, PHP/Joomla on Apache 2 and DotNetNuke on IIS. There was also Apache Tomcat on there. Recently, we also added Subversion and TeamCity for version control plus continuous integration. All of the .NET stuff has been moved over to another server that we acquired. Right now I am trying to get Sun Glassfish 3 and Alfresco WCM to run on Windows on the old server, but it is a major pain in the butt. I could use OpenSolaris, except there are a couple things that are easier in Ubuntu. The box must also be able to run FreeNX properly so that my boss, who is a GUI guy, will be able to log in to a desktop. That leaves Ubuntu, since I am somewhat familiar with it.
I was able to get FreeNX, Glassfish and Alfresco (up to a point) to run using a Turnkey Linux image. The problem is the server is proving to be difficult. I tried starting with the desktop 9.1 CD that I downloaded; however, there is massive graphics corruption on the desktop. It'll boot fine to the Gnome desktop, but the system will become really slow and the windows disappear, leaving just a border. Switching to another VT shows blurry, shaky text. I suspect there is an issue with the graphics driver, but I can't even type in any commands to find out what is going on.
I also downloaded 9.04 Server edition and it installed fine with no shaky text. How hard would it be to build on top of that for XWindows and FreeNX to work? Why is the text shaking in the first place?
megaraid controller and Dell2850, all that I can see on thi screenshot:
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All drives successfuly passed verifing from LSI controllers (Ctrl+A at startup), also I tried to boot from rescue llive cd and mount all the morrored drives and check it by fsck - ok.
Quick question: Can anyone tell me if a logical volume will persist through a CentOS 5 re-install? I hosed my system, and am working to reinstall CentOS (once I work through another problem).When I re-install, I am planning on keeping the same partitions and structure, but hope to not lose the information on my logical volumes (not the LogVolGrp, a different Logical Volume I created). Anybody know if keeping this data intact through a re-install is realistic?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to install opensuse on a poweredge 830 server with a cerc 1.5/6 hardware raid configuration, since i have no previous experience with linux I'm having a hard time to grasp the way to do things. But i would love if someone can direct me to a good tutorial or document where i can learn more. At this moment I'm stuck (though i decided to install using default options yast gave me, just to test) with partitioning and RAID.
So this is what i would like to know:
Conditions:
*Server currently has a windows 2003 installed but I don't need it so actually that is going to go away
*this is a small network, less than 30 users
*Server is going to be used to authentificate users through openldap, also is going to serve files (since we do printing many of them would be 100mb +), and also depending on performance may be used as printing server too (i know that's a lot of tasks but besides printing other functions won't be used that much)
*Server has 2 phisical HD that i want to use with RAID 5 or 6 there are drivers for that already in dell's webpage
* I'm installing openSUSE 11.4
Questions
1.- Does linux really needs a dedicated swap partition
2.- If so how raid works with that, is it going to be mirrored too (I don't think)
3.- Is it better to install linux in 1 HD only with no swap partition, leave the other blank and install raid after linux is up
4.- What's up with ext units, in the sense that now it looks like there are too many units.. not only the simple 'os, data' i'm used to
Objective
1.- I just want to have a linux installation with raid 5 configuration using 2 hd
I was finally upgrading from F12 to F14, and as you'd expect from someone posting for the first time here, I did something stupid. My system has two drives set up as RAID-1 with LVM for the entirety of them. I added a new drive to use as the boot & OS drive, but during the install process I believe I somehow managed to wipe the LVM information from the RAIDed drives (though I did not install to them or format them).
While I have a working F14 install on the new drive, I would like to get access to the data I have on the RAID. However, the LVM tools show the RAID drives as uninitialized. If I try booting off the RAID, it gets partway through the bootup (the white part of the progress bar gets about halfway) before displaying "No root device found. Boot failed, sleeping forever." This occurs regardless of whether I have the new drive plugged in or not. I've been googling for the past several hours and haven't found anything that allows me to access the the volumes on the RAIDed drives.
I have a Dell Studio XPS running openSUSE 11.2 with dual mirrored disks (using Dell's SATA controller). Does anyone know how I can set up automatic monitoring of the disks so that I will be informed if either fail? I think smartd might be what I need here. Is that correct? I added:
/dev/sda -a -d sat -m <my email>
/dev/sda -a -d sat -m <my email>
smartd is running, but how do I know that it will report what I need? I also have a client with a Dell PowderEdge SC440 with SAS 5/iR also running openSUSE 11.2. They also require automatic monitoring. There doesn't seem to be a SAS directive for smartd. I notice that the newer release says it does support SAS disk. I upgraded to 5.39. On restart (with DEVICESCAN as the directive) I get the following in /var/log/messages for my SAS RAID disk.
Sep 18 10:47:26 harmony-server smartd[25234]: Device: /dev/sdb, Bad IEC (SMART) mode page, err=4, skip device
I ran:
smartctl -a /dev/sdb
and got the result:
smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] (openSUSE RPM)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, smartmontools
Device: Dell VIRTUAL DISK Version: 1028
Device type: disk
Local Time is: Sat Sep 18 11:32:08 2010 JST
Device does not support SMART
Error Counter logging not supported
Device does not support Self Test logging
Is there some other tool/package that does support DELL virtual disks?
got a dell powerconnect sc1425 running 2 250gb sata drives configured as raid 1 on a CERC onboard raid controller. boot up into 10.04 x64 server install, all goes well until after network discovery it goes to detect hard drives. a message appears "one or more drives containing serial ata raid configurations have been found. do you wish to activate these raid devices?" yes/no whether or not i hit yes or no, the next screen doesnt have any drives listed, just configure iscsi, undo changes to partitions and finish/write changes to disk.so where are these drives? do i have to load drivers like in winblows setup?
View 3 Replies View RelatedFirst post so please excuse my lack of correct terminolgy/understanding/etc. Running Fedora 12 with the following software raid setup...
Mount Device Underlying Partitions
/ /dev/md0 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1
swap /dev/md1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2
/home /dev/md2 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3
Recently updated to kernel 2.5.32.11-99 and upon restart, failed to boot. Get stuck at a recovery prompt asking for root password or Ctrl-D to continue (which reboots system). I worked around this problem by reverting to the previous kernel 2.6.32.9-70. From what I can tell, with the newer kernel there is a problem with device enumeration of software raid volumes.
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Fedora is having trouble identifying a raid partition, it sees them as separate drives. I got drivers from dell, but during a Fedora dvd install, it mentions nothing about a place to install extra drivers.
When it says it must "initialize" the drives, Fedora then breaks the dell bios raid. How to either install the dell drivers or make Fedora see the raid partition as one?
i have a fedora 11 server which can't access the ext4 partitions on lvm logical volumes on a raid array during boot-up. the problem manifested itself after a failed preupgrade to fedora 12; however, i think the attempt at upgrading to fc12 might not have anything to do with the problem, since i last rebooted the server over 250 days ago (sometime soon after the last fedora 11 kernel update). prior to the last reboot, i had successfully rebooted many times (usually after kernel updates) without any problems. i'm pretty sure the fc12 upgrade attempt didn't touch any of the existing files, since it hung on the dependency checking of the fc12 packages. when i try to reboot into my existing fedora 11 installation, though, i get the following screen: (click for full size) a description of the server filesystem (partitions may be different sizes now due to the growing of logical volumes):
Code:
- 250GB system drive
250MB/dev/sdh1/bootext3
lvm partition rest of driveVolGroup_System
10240VolGroup_System-LogVol_root/ext4
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except he's talking about fake raid and dmraid, whereas my raid is linux software raid using mdadm. this machine is a headless server which acts as my home file, mail, and web server. it also runs mythtv with four hd tuners. i connect remotely to the server using nx or vnc to run applications directly on the server. i also run an xp professional desktop in a qemu virtual machine on the server for times when i need to use windows. so needless to say, it's a major inconvenience to have the machine down.
I'm new on Dell PowerEdge 2900. I dont know how to install centOS 5.2 on it. whice OS type that I should select. at first I select RH enterprise 5 and it format HDD. already and I put centOS 5.2 in, but it was deny and eject that cd. when I power off it shown that
"root(hd0,1)filesystem type is ext2f2,partition type0x83
kernel/linux/vmlinz%(ksLocations)
Error is : file not found
press any key to continue"
I have DL120 Proliant server that has a P212 raid card, if I install Lenny it works fine however I need squeeze. If I upgrade or install a new version of squeeze the raid controller is no longer visible. I have done some snoopping and it seems as though the ciss drivers have been replaced by the hpsa drivers but I still cant seem to get the raid card recognised any body got any tips ?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have DELL R310 server with PERC 200H controller and RAID 5 configured already.This is my first time I want to install CentOS and seems like a new challenge for me I've read some articles on Wiki and posts on this forum and didn't find any information how to install CentOS on RAID 5.I only noticed that if there is fake or software RAID1 it should be switched off and made by OS configuration.I think PERC 200H is separate controller so RAID 5 is hardware RAID, is there anybody who can confirm ?My problem is that when I try to install CentOS it doesn't see any hard disks ... I looked for drivers on DELL web site and there is driver for Red Hat 6. I tried to install it using linux dd command but it doesn't recognize. Is there anybody else who met such problem ?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am having issues installing Centos on a Dell Poweredge 1950. I have tried 5.3 and 5.4, and the text only install. The error I get is when I select what keyboard layout to use. An error window pops up and says "Assertion ((C * heads + H) * sector + S == A) at dos.c:624 in function probe_partition_for_geom() failed " I can click ignore and cancel but it instantly pops back up. I have tried to look up the error but can't find any information on it.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am attempting to set up an IBM Intellistation Z Pro to optionally boot from many OS versions. One of these is Windows XP. Windows XP is currently installed on a RAID 1 device consisting of a pair of 1 GB WD drives. These are SATA drives. The HBA I'm using is a SYBA SATA II card that uses Silicon Image's SIL3124-2 chip. The card has a BIOS and I've set up two 60 GB mirrors for Windows. I boot XP fine from this setup and things run good.
I've downloaded the CentOS 5.2 images and am able to start the installation process. I'm baffled on where to install the OS software on the RAID device. The installation process shows the two 1GB drives as separate drives and there is no acknowledgment of the 60 GB partition I've already created on them for Windows XP. I expected to see only the one logical RAID device and 60 GB of it in use for a NTFS partition. Reluctant to proceed further, I bailed on the install and am asking for advice on how to proceed.
The big question is
1) How can I install CentOS 5.2 on the RAID drive to coexist with a Windows XP installation? My desire is to boot either from this drive.
other questions related to this are:
2) Why does the CentOS partitioning software used for the install not display the logical RAID drive set up through BIOS (I'm assuming that this means it was set up apart from any Windows drivers etc.)? Only the two physical drives are displayed and there is no mention of any partitions in use.
I am trying to setup a H/W RAID-1 matrix but I am unsuccessful. I am trying to get partitions installed as /dev/md0, /dev/md1 but it keeps going for /dev/mapper/isw...The reason is that I have R1Soft backup and it needs to hook the partitions as seen in /proc/partitions from /dev not /dev/mapper/isw. I have tried to boot the installation with various options but nothing!
View 16 Replies View RelatedI am now installing the CentOS5.4 with a DVD on a Windows machine. The video card is ATI Radeon HD 3450, and monitor is Dell 1909W. During the install, after recognizing the ATI card, and starting the xserver, the screen came up with a message saying: " The current input timing is not supported by the monitor display. Please change your input timing to 1440X900@60Hz or any other monitor listed timing as per the monitor specification. "
However, in Windows XP the monitor is configured as 1440X900@60Hz, which works well. Due to this problem, the GUI installation cannot proceed. And how can I fix this problem if I manage to install in the text mode.
I have got a server which has a motherboard with nvidia mediashield raid built in, with Centos installed it picked up the raid 5 array that i had configured as one drive so the os install was straight forward. When i booted the netinstaller of opensuse 11.3 run though the setup, when getting to the partition setup is was picking up the three hdd as seperate drives and not one, so i got to a certain point and aborted the installation and i re run the installer, the raid status said the array was degarded or something which i knew there was nothing wrong with it as i had set it up only about 2 weeks ago and there was one drive missing aswell. So i removed the array and re configured the array and rebooted and the raid status said healthy again as it was before on centos, then i run the opensuse installer again and it went though the process again but completely stop at "Searching for linux partitions" , cursor was working fine , but nothing else was so i had to press reset.
This was my problem, i know kind of what the problem is, but what i want to know is , i thought opensuse is based on rhel same as centos but how comes centos has the drivers for the raid chip i have in my board and opensuse has not.
I am trying to use e2label to label one of my Logical Volumes. the labeling is done successfully. but my findfs output is like this:
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-TEST
I am trying to connect a RAID Box to the server via LSI 8880EM2 RAID controller.The raid box is FUjitsu Externus DX60 with raid 1 configured.The server is Fujitsu Primergy SX300 S5 with LSI 8880EM2 RAID card.The external raid box is being recognised by the raid controllers bios.
The server runs CentOS 5.5 64bit. I have installed the megaraid_sas driver from LSI website and MegaCLI utility but CentOS still fails to see the box.MegaCLI utility, when launched from CentOS, recognises the raid box, CentOS does not(no mapping being created in /dev).
I have also tried to create a logical RAID0 HDD on one physical HDD(as seen by MegaCLI) with MegaCLI utility in CentOS.The result was success and the new logical drive could have been used, but when restarting the server, the controllers' bios fails with an error (not surprised(one logical RAID0 on one physical HDD)) and configuration is being erased.
Has anyone tried connecting 8880EM2 controller to a raid box with raid configured on the box, running it all under CentOS and what were the results.
Currently I am attempting to install Centos 5.2 64bit onto a Supermicro X7DCL-3 motherboard based machine. The Raid recognizes the HDD that's been installed into it, however, the drivers for the raid are not included in the install. After contacting Supermicro I've been supplied with a driver package that should fix the problem.[URL]However, I am still having trouble using the package in order to find the HDD (The only HDD in the machine) that is on the raid.I think I'm doing something that's should be fairly simple, but am screwing it up pretty bad.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI had a fedora 11 on a IDE HDD and a raid 5 with 4 SATA HDD with a rocketraid card 1640 After a crash of my HDD, i try too install a centos 5 on a new HDD and the problem is to install a raid 5 without loosing my datas who are on the raid.
View 1 Replies View RelatedDoes everybody do major upgrades in place on production servers?Am I over-engineering by creating a new logical volume, syncing my working root volume to it and upgrading the new volume to test services? Then, after a week or 2 or 4, removing the old LV...
View 3 Replies View RelatedI inherited a 3ware 9550SX running a version of gentoo with a2.6.28.something kernel. I started over with CentOS 5.6 x86_64.tw_cli informs me that the 9-disk RAID 5 is healthy.The previous admin used lvm (?) to carve up the RAID into a zilliontiny pieces and one big piece. My main interest is the big piece.Some of the small pieces refused to mount until I installed theCentOS plus kernel (they are reiserfs).The remainder seem to be ext3; however, they are not mounted at boot("refusing activation"). lvs tells me they are not active. If I try tomake one active, for example:root> lvchange -ay vg01/usrI get:Refusing activation of partial LV usr. Use --partial to override.If I use --partial, I get:Partial mode. Incomplete logical volumes will be processed.and then I can then mount the partition, but not everything seems tobe there.
Some of the directory entries look like this:?--------- ? ? ? ? ? logfilesIs it possible that the versions of the kernel and lvm that wereon the gentoo system are causing grief for an older kernel (andpossibly older lvm) on CentOS 5.6 and that I might have greaterfortunes with CentOS 6.x ?Or am I missing something fundamental? This is my first experiencewith lvm, so it's more than a little probable.