Thanx Hari. Pressed F10 and ... Utility Partition not available. Strike the F1 key to continue, F2 to run the setup utility
And the maze continues! # Edz On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Hari Kurup <[email protected]> wrote: > If you want to turn off RAID, it isn't enough to disable it in BIOS. You > need to clear the RAID metadata on the disks. I believe when you boot up, > there is an option F10 to go into "Utility mode" where you can initialise > the existing RAID config. > > -- > Hari > > On 8 January 2011 08:59, Edmonds Namasenda <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A happier and more prosperous 2011. >> >> Apologies for cross-posting but it is all about yearning for a solution. >> >> I have a Dell PowerEdge SC1425 with two HDDs each approximately 1 TB. >> My goal is to install openSuSe 11.2 on the two HDDs as independent drives >> with particularly different partitions (e.g swap & root on sda and /var and >> /srv on sdb). >> The HDDs are by default set-up or so installed as follows >> /dev/mapper/ddf1_VOLUME 0 931.48 GB DM RAID ddf1_VOLUME 0 >> /dev/sda 931.51 GB Hitachi-HDS72101 >> /dev/sdb 931.51 GB Hitachi-HDS72101 >> /dev/mapper/ddf1_VOLUME 931.48 GB DM >> >> Please note the physical drives are sda and sdb which I can not partition >> at all with ddf1_VOLUME 0 on. >> If I delete ddf1_VOLUME 0, ddf1_VOLUME remains in the background and can >> not install on the HDDs even after successful partition as appropriate with >> the following message when installation begins >> ## Start of error message >> Failure occurred during following action: >> Removing raid ddf1_VOLUME 0 >> >> System error code was: -13001 >> >> cd /var/log/YaST2 && echo y | /sbin/dmraid -E -r '/dev/sdb': >> ERROR: ddf1: seeking device "/dev/sdb" to 512104901378048 >> ERROR: writing metadata to /dev/sdb, offset 1000204885504 sectors, size 0 >> bytes returned 0 >> ERROR: erasing ondisk metadata on /dev/sdb >> ## End of error message >> >> If I partition ddf1_VOLUME 0 as necessary, installation goes smoothly >> until it reaches the time of boot loader when errors appear thus an >> incomplete & unusable installation. >> >> I thought it was all about BIOS RAID settings and went to F2 (at start-up) >> > Integrated Devices > ATA Mode | RAID Mode | Off (changed to ATA Mode) to >> no success of removing ddf1_VOLUME 0. >> Played with the NVRAM jumper too as well as plucking out the CMOS! >> Installed Windows 7 32-bit successfully and both HDDs are shown as usable >> for user files although sdb can not be initially used for installing on the >> OS. >> >> What could I be missing? >> >> -- >> Thank you and kind regards, >> >> *I.P.N Edmonds* >> >> *Cel:* +256 70 227 3374 >> +256 71 227 3374 >> >> *P.O.* Box 22249, Kampala UGANDA >> >> *Y! / MSN:* zibiced *| GMail:* namasenda* | Skype:* edsend >> > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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