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Oct 15, 2010

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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Both are running 32 bit CentOS 5.3. Both are running the same kernel (vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.el5). I've even diff'ed the two kernels to ensure that they are in fact identical. The only parameters being passed to the kernel via the grub config are "ro root=/dev/sda2"

The BIOS shows 4GB detected on the 4GB server and 3Gb detected on the 3GB server on boot.

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*-memory
description: System Memory
physical id: 1000
slot: System board or motherboard

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administrador@ubuntu:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr b8:ac:6f:86:2b:aa
inet addr:192.168.1.107 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
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type "exit" to reboot the computer
bash-4.1#

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