RE: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5
Aah Damn!! It didn't boot off the raid.. just asked for the floppy disk. Tried to boot off the floppy but crashed with a kernel panic not being able to access or write or read the / partition, but I created it. Is there a limit of the partitions being larger than 30GB? This is for data only and not something stupid like / or /boot. Also when creating swap space, what happens if you put somethign large like 1000MB as swap? Could that have been the problem as I remember 128MB was the limit but this time it didn't complain?? thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP KeyID: 0x38A9A10C -Original Message- From: Dean Hamstead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 3:33 PM To: George Vieira Cc: 'Howard Lowndes'; Sydney Linux Users Group in Sydney (E-mail) Subject: Re: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5 AAaha Got it.. I ran Bleeding Edge 6.2 which has a working raid support but found that I needed to patch the firmware on this server to 4.30 and download the 4.30 drivers for linux. Im a big fan of roll your own (if you have the time) =) I booted the CD and typed `linux dd` and when it found the files it worked beautifully. Funny thing though it sees it as a very large /dev/hda (or was it sda) 34GB drive and not a mda0 like a normal raid would... I think it's because it's running hardware raid not software. sda hda is for ide, and mda is only used with software raid, with hardware raid the system sees the device as your run of the mills block device (basically) hence hardware raid =) Sean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5
I beleive ext1 had a limit on it. But i dont know why youd be running ext1 a 30gb partition is probably not a great idea as youll lose *alot* of space. (the whole allocation size thingy) as for swap space, you can have more than one swap drive, so even if there is a size limit, you can just break it up and the kernel will use them all happily Dean "Useless Waffle" Hamstead George Vieira wrote: Aah Damn!! It didn't boot off the raid.. just asked for the floppy disk. Tried to boot off the floppy but crashed with a kernel panic not being able to access or write or read the / partition, but I created it. Is there a limit of the partitions being larger than 30GB? This is for data only and not something stupid like / or /boot. Also when creating swap space, what happens if you put somethign large like 1000MB as swap? Could that have been the problem as I remember 128MB was the limit but this time it didn't complain?? thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP KeyID: 0x38A9A10C -Original Message- From: Dean Hamstead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 3:33 PM To: George Vieira Cc: 'Howard Lowndes'; Sydney Linux Users Group in Sydney (E-mail) Subject: Re: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5 AAaha Got it.. I ran Bleeding Edge 6.2 which has a working raid support but found that I needed to patch the firmware on this server to 4.30 and download the 4.30 drivers for linux. Im a big fan of roll your own (if you have the time) =) I booted the CD and typed `linux dd` and when it found the files it worked beautifully. Funny thing though it sees it as a very large /dev/hda (or was it sda) 34GB drive and not a mda0 like a normal raid would... I think it's because it's running hardware raid not software. sda hda is for ide, and mda is only used with software raid, with hardware raid the system sees the device as your run of the mills block device (basically) hence hardware raid =) Sean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5
George Vieira wrote: Also when creating swap space, what happens if you put somethign large like 1000MB as swap? Could that have been the problem as I remember 128MB was the limit but this time it did I think the way it works is not matter how bug the swap partition is only teh first 128MB gets used, but you can have up to 8 swap partitions. If the system won't even boot from the HDD then the problem may lie with the boot loader. Have you tried to reinstall LILO? (Or your boot loader of choice - I've only ever used lilo) - Doug -- _ Network Operations Engineer - Big Pond Advance Satellite Ericsson Australia - Level 5, 184 The Broadway, Sydney 2000 Ph: +61-416-085-390 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5
OK. I got it to boot but failed at failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, ernno=2 VFS: Cannot open root device 08:08 Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root on 08:08 Any ideas, OK a little hint: I notice alot of messages about /lib/ips.o being unable to resolve symbols to a whole heap of names... is this a clue or is it like you said "the filesystem is ext1" ??? Getting Desperate, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP KeyID: 0x38A9A10C -Original Message- From: Dean Hamstead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 4:29 PM To: George Vieira Cc: Sydney Linux Users Group in Sydney (E-mail) Subject: Re: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5 I beleive ext1 had a limit on it. But i dont know why youd be running ext1 a 30gb partition is probably not a great idea as youll lose *alot* of space. (the whole allocation size thingy) as for swap space, you can have more than one swap drive, so even if there is a size limit, you can just break it up and the kernel will use them all happily Dean "Useless Waffle" Hamstead George Vieira wrote: Aah Damn!! It didn't boot off the raid.. just asked for the floppy disk. Tried to boot off the floppy but crashed with a kernel panic not being able to access or write or read the / partition, but I created it. Is there a limit of the partitions being larger than 30GB? This is for data only and not something stupid like / or /boot. Also when creating swap space, what happens if you put somethign large like 1000MB as swap? Could that have been the problem as I remember 128MB was the limit but this time it didn't complain?? thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP KeyID: 0x38A9A10C -Original Message- From: Dean Hamstead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 3:33 PM To: George Vieira Cc: 'Howard Lowndes'; Sydney Linux Users Group in Sydney (E-mail) Subject: Re: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5 AAaha Got it.. I ran Bleeding Edge 6.2 which has a working raid support but found that I needed to patch the firmware on this server to 4.30 and download the 4.30 drivers for linux. Im a big fan of roll your own (if you have the time) =) I booted the CD and typed `linux dd` and when it found the files it worked beautifully. Funny thing though it sees it as a very large /dev/hda (or was it sda) 34GB drive and not a mda0 like a normal raid would... I think it's because it's running hardware raid not software. sda hda is for ide, and mda is only used with software raid, with hardware raid the system sees the device as your run of the mills block device (basically) hence hardware raid =) Sean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5
Just checking my other systems and by default they are ext2. So I guess this one would be too... thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP KeyID: 0x38A9A10C -Original Message- From: Dean Hamstead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 4:29 PM To: George Vieira Cc: Sydney Linux Users Group in Sydney (E-mail) Subject: Re: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5 I beleive ext1 had a limit on it. But i dont know why youd be running ext1 a 30gb partition is probably not a great idea as youll lose *alot* of space. (the whole allocation size thingy) as for swap space, you can have more than one swap drive, so even if there is a size limit, you can just break it up and the kernel will use them all happily Dean "Useless Waffle" Hamstead George Vieira wrote: Aah Damn!! It didn't boot off the raid.. just asked for the floppy disk. Tried to boot off the floppy but crashed with a kernel panic not being able to access or write or read the / partition, but I created it. Is there a limit of the partitions being larger than 30GB? This is for data only and not something stupid like / or /boot. Also when creating swap space, what happens if you put somethign large like 1000MB as swap? Could that have been the problem as I remember 128MB was the limit but this time it didn't complain?? thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP KeyID: 0x38A9A10C -Original Message- From: Dean Hamstead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 3:33 PM To: George Vieira Cc: 'Howard Lowndes'; Sydney Linux Users Group in Sydney (E-mail) Subject: Re: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5 AAaha Got it.. I ran Bleeding Edge 6.2 which has a working raid support but found that I needed to patch the firmware on this server to 4.30 and download the 4.30 drivers for linux. Im a big fan of roll your own (if you have the time) =) I booted the CD and typed `linux dd` and when it found the files it worked beautifully. Funny thing though it sees it as a very large /dev/hda (or was it sda) 34GB drive and not a mda0 like a normal raid would... I think it's because it's running hardware raid not software. sda hda is for ide, and mda is only used with software raid, with hardware raid the system sees the device as your run of the mills block device (basically) hence hardware raid =) Sean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 04:33:01PM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: I booted the CD and typed `linux dd` and when it found the files it worked beautifully. Funny thing though it sees it as a very large /dev/hda (or was it sda) 34GB drive and not a mda0 like a normal raid would... I think it's because it's running hardware raid not software. sda hda is for ide, and mda is only used with software raid, with hardware raid the system sees the device as your run of the mills block device (basically) hence hardware raid =) I've setup a compaq smart array and you don't use /dev/sda directly, if you did that, you wouldn't be using the hardware raid. Instead you use /dev/ida/c0d0. I would guess its a similar situation with other raid cards, but it probably isn't /dev/ida, but something else, like /dev/rd. What sort of raid card is it? cat /proc/pci should list it. VFS: Cannot open root device 08:08 08:08 is /dev/sda8 I think, is that your root partition? -- chesty -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5
Hi, On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 05:37:12PM +1000, George Vieira wrote: OK. I got it to boot but failed at failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, ernno=2 VFS: Cannot open root device 08:08 Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root on 08:08 You said you downloaded the device drivers. That means you downloaded modules. The root device cannot be built as a module, but rather must be compiled into the kernel. From what I gathered, it worked previously coz that was the installation disk, and the raid disk was not the root partition during installation. The error message is due to the kernel trying to load a raid driver from a raid drive. Kinda like a chicken and egg problem. Try to get the sources and compile it into the kernel. -- Ho Ming Shun Any ideas, OK a little hint: I notice alot of messages about /lib/ips.o being unable to resolve symbols to a whole heap of names... is this a clue or is it like you said "the filesystem is ext1" ??? Getting Desperate, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP KeyID:0x38A9A10C -Original Message- From: Dean Hamstead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 4:29 PM To: George Vieira Cc: Sydney Linux Users Group in Sydney (E-mail) Subject: Re: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5 I beleive ext1 had a limit on it. But i dont know why youd be running ext1 a 30gb partition is probably not a great idea as youll lose *alot* of space. (the whole allocation size thingy) as for swap space, you can have more than one swap drive, so even if there is a size limit, you can just break it up and the kernel will use them all happily Dean "Useless Waffle" Hamstead George Vieira wrote: Aah Damn!! It didn't boot off the raid.. just asked for the floppy disk. Tried to boot off the floppy but crashed with a kernel panic not being able to access or write or read the / partition, but I created it. Is there a limit of the partitions being larger than 30GB? This is for data only and not something stupid like / or /boot. Also when creating swap space, what happens if you put somethign large like 1000MB as swap? Could that have been the problem as I remember 128MB was the limit but this time it didn't complain?? thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP KeyID: 0x38A9A10C -Original Message- From: Dean Hamstead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 3:33 PM To: George Vieira Cc: 'Howard Lowndes'; Sydney Linux Users Group in Sydney (E-mail) Subject: Re: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5 AAaha Got it.. I ran Bleeding Edge 6.2 which has a working raid support but found that I needed to patch the firmware on this server to 4.30 and download the 4.30 drivers for linux. Im a big fan of roll your own (if you have the time) =) I booted the CD and typed `linux dd` and when it found the files it worked beautifully. Funny thing though it sees it as a very large /dev/hda (or was it sda) 34GB drive and not a mda0 like a normal raid would... I think it's because it's running hardware raid not software. sda hda is for ide, and mda is only used with software raid, with hardware raid the system sees the device as your run of the mills block device (basically) hence hardware raid =) Sean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5
On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 04:35:24PM +0800, Ho Ming Shun wrote: You said you downloaded the device drivers. That means you downloaded modules. The root device cannot be built as a module, but rather must be compiled into the kernel. From what I gathered, it worked previously coz that was the installation disk, and the raid disk was not the root partition during installation. The error message is due to the kernel trying to load a raid driver from a raid drive. Kinda like a chicken and egg problem. Try to get the sources and compile it into the kernel. Or use initrd, which I think redhat uses for its default kernels. I'm starting to think this raid card does use /dev/sda, etc, for its logical drives, its a bit different from the smart array. -- chesty -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5
That sounds correct as those unresolved symbols sounded like the kernel didn't have or was missing something. Sounds great people giving suggestions but how do I compile things into the kernel when I can't even boot? That's another chicken and the egg. I have to get into the system to give it the raid module support but I have to get there first.. Is there a way at boot time to load the module? -Original Message- From: Ho Ming Shun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 6:35 PM To: Sydney Linux Users Group in Sydney (E-mail) Subject: Re: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5 Hi, On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 05:37:12PM +1000, George Vieira wrote: OK. I got it to boot but failed at failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, ernno=2 VFS: Cannot open root device 08:08 Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root on 08:08 You said you downloaded the device drivers. That means you downloaded modules. The root device cannot be built as a module, but rather must be compiled into the kernel. From what I gathered, it worked previously coz that was the installation disk, and the raid disk was not the root partition during installation. The error message is due to the kernel trying to load a raid driver from a raid drive. Kinda like a chicken and egg problem. Try to get the sources and compile it into the kernel. -- Ho Ming Shun Any ideas, OK a little hint: I notice alot of messages about /lib/ips.o being unable to resolve symbols to a whole heap of names... is this a clue or is it like you said "the filesystem is ext1" ??? Getting Desperate, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP KeyID:0x38A9A10C -Original Message- From: Dean Hamstead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 4:29 PM To: George Vieira Cc: Sydney Linux Users Group in Sydney (E-mail) Subject: Re: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5 I beleive ext1 had a limit on it. But i dont know why youd be running ext1 a 30gb partition is probably not a great idea as youll lose *alot* of space. (the whole allocation size thingy) as for swap space, you can have more than one swap drive, so even if there is a size limit, you can just break it up and the kernel will use them all happily Dean "Useless Waffle" Hamstead George Vieira wrote: Aah Damn!! It didn't boot off the raid.. just asked for the floppy disk. Tried to boot off the floppy but crashed with a kernel panic not being able to access or write or read the / partition, but I created it. Is there a limit of the partitions being larger than 30GB? This is for data only and not something stupid like / or /boot. Also when creating swap space, what happens if you put somethign large like 1000MB as swap? Could that have been the problem as I remember 128MB was the limit but this time it didn't complain?? thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP KeyID: 0x38A9A10C -Original Message- From: Dean Hamstead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 3:33 PM To: George Vieira Cc: 'Howard Lowndes'; Sydney Linux Users Group in Sydney (E-mail) Subject: Re: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5 AAaha Got it.. I ran Bleeding Edge 6.2 which has a working raid support but found that I needed to patch the firmware on this server to 4.30 and download the 4.30 drivers for linux. Im a big fan of roll your own (if you have the time) =) I booted the CD and typed `linux dd` and when it found the files it worked beautifully. Funny thing though it sees it as a very large /dev/hda (or was it sda) 34GB drive and not a mda0 like a normal raid would... I think it's because it's running hardware raid not software. sda hda is for ide, and mda is only used with software raid, with hardware raid the system sees the device as your run of the mills block device (basically) hence hardware raid =) Sean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linu
[SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5
Hi all, I've been buggering around with this machine for a while and have given up. I'm sure the IBM web site is incorrect and require drivers but here is my problem. I booted off the Customer Support CD from IBM and configured the RAID 5 array with 1 hot swap drive. It then says to rebooted and install the NOS so I did. I booted off the BE Rh 6.2 CD and installed as normal (doubt this is normal but IBM say to do so), when I get to the Custom select option and I hit ENTER it says there's no devices available... I guess at the beginning I'm suppose to add the device driver in but there are no drivers supplied and the steps they say to do don't work.. Anybody got any ideas and if it's a driver (which I'm pretty sure it is), then how do I add it at the CD boot prompt? thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP KeyID: 0x38A9A10C -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5
I think you will find that the stock issue RH kernel uses the old RAID which was broken. You will need to recomp the kernel with the new RAID. I forget where it is but have a look for an up to date RAID HOWTO for the details. I did that and managed to get RAID 1 working so I don't see why RAID 5 should be any problem. -- Howard. __ LANNet Computing Associates http://www.lannet.com.au On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, George Vieira wrote: Hi all, I've been buggering around with this machine for a while and have given up. I'm sure the IBM web site is incorrect and require drivers but here is my problem. I booted off the Customer Support CD from IBM and configured the RAID 5 array with 1 hot swap drive. It then says to rebooted and install the NOS so I did. I booted off the BE Rh 6.2 CD and installed as normal (doubt this is normal but IBM say to do so), when I get to the Custom select option and I hit ENTER it says there's no devices available... I guess at the beginning I'm suppose to add the device driver in but there are no drivers supplied and the steps they say to do don't work.. Anybody got any ideas and if it's a driver (which I'm pretty sure it is), then how do I add it at the CD boot prompt? thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP KeyID:0x38A9A10C -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5
AAaha Got it.. I ran Bleeding Edge 6.2 which has a working raid support but found that I needed to patch the firmware on this server to 4.30 and download the 4.30 drivers for linux. I booted the CD and typed `linux dd` and when it found the files it worked beautifully. Funny thing though it sees it as a very large /dev/hda (or was it sda) 34GB drive and not a mda0 like a normal raid would... I think it's because it's running hardware raid not software. Just to let you all know the results and how it was fixed.. thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP KeyID: 0x38A9A10C -Original Message- From: Howard Lowndes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 1:54 PM To: George Vieira Cc: Sydney Linux Users Group in Sydney (E-mail) Subject: Re: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5 I think you will find that the stock issue RH kernel uses the old RAID which was broken. You will need to recomp the kernel with the new RAID. I forget where it is but have a look for an up to date RAID HOWTO for the details. I did that and managed to get RAID 1 working so I don't see why RAID 5 should be any problem. -- Howard. __ LANNet Computing Associates http://www.lannet.com.au On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, George Vieira wrote: Hi all, I've been buggering around with this machine for a while and have given up. I'm sure the IBM web site is incorrect and require drivers but here is my problem. I booted off the Customer Support CD from IBM and configured the RAID 5 array with 1 hot swap drive. It then says to rebooted and install the NOS so I did. I booted off the BE Rh 6.2 CD and installed as normal (doubt this is normal but IBM say to do so), when I get to the Custom select option and I hit ENTER it says there's no devices available... I guess at the beginning I'm suppose to add the device driver in but there are no drivers supplied and the steps they say to do don't work.. Anybody got any ideas and if it's a driver (which I'm pretty sure it is), then how do I add it at the CD boot prompt? thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP KeyID:0x38A9A10C -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5
AAaha Got it.. I ran Bleeding Edge 6.2 which has a working raid support but found that I needed to patch the firmware on this server to 4.30 and download the 4.30 drivers for linux. Im a big fan of roll your own (if you have the time) =) I booted the CD and typed `linux dd` and when it found the files it worked beautifully. Funny thing though it sees it as a very large /dev/hda (or was it sda) 34GB drive and not a mda0 like a normal raid would... I think it's because it's running hardware raid not software. sda hda is for ide, and mda is only used with software raid, with hardware raid the system sees the device as your run of the mills block device (basically) hence hardware raid =) Sean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
