After uprading to 11.04 b1 i cannot activate my softraid. It still works if i boot 10.10 live CD
root@bisley:/home/goblin# dmraid -ay
RAID set "pdc_dhifadccdc" was not activated
root@bisley:/home/goblin# dmraid -s
*** Set
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I have two Ubuntu 8.04 servers currently. I've purchased some 500 GB hard drives and a RAID cage just yesterday and plan to change my current servers to using RAID1 with the hard drives. Much like everyone else, I have the nVidia RAID built onto the motherboard that I plan to use. There are many how-to's out there on how to setup RAID using dmraid during the install process - but what would a person do if they are simply changing over to a RAId system? I installed dmraid a few days ago on the server. It seems that even though I have RAID shut off in the BIOS, it saw the one and only drive as a mirrored array. When I rebooted today, the server would not start; it had ERROR: degraded disks.. bla bla. Then Grub tried to start the partition based off the UUID of the drive (which was not changed) and it said "device or resource busy" and would not boot.
This problem was corrected by going into the BIOS and turning on RAID. When I rebooted, the nVidia RAID firmware started and said degraded. I went in there and deleted the so-called mirror keeping the data intact. Rebooted, disabled the RAID feature in the BIOS and then the server loaded normally with a message "NO RAID DISKS" - but at lest it did boot! So this leads me to believe that trying to turn on a RAID-1 array (just mirror between two disks) may be a challenge since I already have the system installed. I will be using Partimage to make an image of the current hard drive and then restore it to one of the new drives.
The next question is - is it a requirement that dmraid is even installed? While I understand that the nVidia RAID is fake-raid - if I go into the nVidia RAID controller and setup the mirroring between the two disks before I even restore the files to the new disk, will both drives be mirrored? However, I do think that I'd probably have to have dmraid installed to check the integrity of the array. So, I'm just a bit lost on this subject. I definitely do not want to start this server over from scratch - so curious to know if anyone has any guidance on simply making a mirrored array after the install procedure, what kind of Grub changes will be needed (because of the previous resource is busy message), and whether installing dmraid is even a requirement.
I eventually gave up and migrated to mdadm. Works just fine. Having upgraded to jessie and solved one problem
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I find the next one. When I boot into jessie my RAID device (just a data partition not /) is not found causing the boot to fail as per problems reported here
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After booting I can mount my RAID device but if it's in the fstab when booting it fails. Also, I notice that some of my lvm device names have changed. After a bit of hunting around I found a couple of solutions pointing to running dmraid as a service during boot and changing the entry for the RAID device in fstab to use the UUID.
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This seems to work. However this seems to be a workaround and as the lvm device paths for my / and /usr partitions have also changed, I'm wondering if there is a bug here as mentioned in the second link?
The / and /usr paths changed to /dev/dm-2 and /dev/dm-3 from the /dev/mapper/ form.
I have a Dell Inspiron 530 with onboard ICH9R RAID support. I have successfully used this with Fedora 9 in a striped configuration.Upon moving to Fedora 13 (fresh/clean install from scratch), I've noticed that it is no longer using dmraid. It now appears to be using mdadm. Additionally, I need to select load special drivers (or something close to that) during the install to have it find my array - which I've never had to do before with F9. While the install appears to work ok and then subsequently run, my array is reporting differences .. presumably because it is trying to manage what mdadm is also trying to manage. More importantly, I can no longer take a full image and successfully restore it as I could with the dmraid F9 install. Is there anyway to force F13 to use the dmraid it successfully used previously?
View 1 Replies View RelatedAbout a year ago I bought a new compy and decided to get on-motherboard RAID, and by golly I was gonna use it, even if it wasn't worth it.
Well, after one year, two upgrades, a lot of random problems dealing with RAID support, and a lot of articles read, I have come to my senses.
The problem: I have a fakeraid using dmraid, RAID 1, two SATA harddrives. They are mirrors of eachother, including separate home and root partitions. I actually found the method I think I had used here: [URL]
The ideal solution: No need to reinstall, no need of another drive, no need to format.
My last resort: Buy a drive, copy my home directory, start from scratch, copy my stuff over.
PS: if it matters, I'm on 64 bit 10.04 LTS
I've googled my problem but I'm not sure I can find an answer in layman's terms. So here's my noob, simple question, please answer it in semi-noob-friendly terms I've been trying to install ubuntu for a while on my desktop pc. I gave it another go with 10.10 but I always have the same problem:
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View 8 Replies View Related1) Use INSSERV to start DMRAID
2) Use MKINITRD to create a new INITRD file which loads the DMRAID module.
Neither solution showed any detail of how to accomplish this, and which files to edit or what order I should use to tackle either. With the second solution, I have another SUSE 11.2 installation on another hard drive. Would it be ok to boot into that and create a new INITRD with DMRAID activated, or would it be better to break the RAID-set boot into one of the drives and create INITRD for that RAID 1 system, then recreate the RAID-set? The only issue I would see is that fstab, device mapper and grub would need the new pdc_xxxxxxxxxx value, which can be changed from the second installation.
My system is:
Asus M4A78T-E with fakeraid SB750 controller
AMD Black Edition - AMD Phenom II X4 3.4 GHz Processor
2 x Samsung 1TB drives
Suse 11.2
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Quote:
# dmraid -ay -v -d
DEBUG: _find_set: searching jmicron_GRAID
DEBUG: _find_set: not found jmicron_GRAID
DEBUG: _find_set: searching jmicron_GRAID
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i have 2 partitions on dmraid. I am not able to configure them to mount with yast; yast partitioner gives an error stating that it can't mount a file system of unknown type. I am able to start the dmraid devices manually and mount them manually.
See bug:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=619796 for more detailed info.
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Code:
root@CyberShadow:/home/vladimir# dmraid -b
/dev/sde: 1465149168 total, "3QK0782F"
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dmraid -ay
RAID set "jmicron_STORAGE2 " was activated
The dynamic shared library "libdmraid-events-jmicron.so" could not be loaded:
libdmraid-events-jmicron.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Two things, why no matter what I name the RAID in the jmicron bios is puts a bagillion spaces after it, and second, I cannot find the missing lib anywhere I've installed all the dmraid* packages.