On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Jon Forrest wrote:
I thought maybe some of you cluster people might have
seen this.
I have a brand new machine that will be the frontend
of a cluster. It has a 3ware 9650 12-port RAID controller
with 12 1TB drives attached.
I used the "Boot Volume" feature in the RAID controller
to make an 80GB boot volume. I install CentOS 5.2 x86_64
on this and everything installed fine, except ...
I've never used that controller, so I may be off a bit.
When I boot the newly installed machine it stops in
the grub prompt. If I type by hand the commands in
/etc/grub.conf (which I saw by booting from a rescue CD),
the first command "root (hd0,0)" shows that an ext3 partition
was recognized, as it should. However, when I enter the
"kernel ...." command, I get the following error message:
Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
What's weird about this is that the root file system starts
on cylinder 1, as confirmed by the fdisk command. This is
using a brand new SuperMicro X7SBE motherboard with the
newest BIOS.
I suggest you create a /boot partition of about 200MB.
Personally, I have gone to using an IDE->CF adapter and putting /boot on
the Compact Flash. I picked up several adapters for around $5 each a
while back and I use CF cards that are smaller than I feel like using in
my camera (nothing smaller than 4GB in my camera case).
-- Matt
It's not what I know that counts.
It's what I can remember in time to use.
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