Re: [CentOS] Order of sata/sas raid cards

2012-08-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/23/12 4:15 PM, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > I will try the LABEL way of doing the problem with labels, there's no guarantee they will be unique. the default labels that the centos installer uses are the same on every system, so if you plug a drive into another computer, the odds are

Re: [CentOS] Order of sata/sas raid cards

2012-08-23 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
I agree with the UUID stuff, I do not like them for the exact same reason. I do not understand why RedHat cannot include the partition into the UUID, e.g. dev-sda1-c05e-449a-837b-b2579b949d55 As for the first drive, when the kernel boots I think it assigns the drives in order of the controlle

Re: [CentOS] System will not boot - faulty fstab?

2012-08-23 Thread James B. Byrne
On Thu, August 23, 2012 18:17, James B. Byrne wrote: > I believe that I made a boo boo recently when recovering some unused > disk space. Without going into painfully embarrassing detail I need > to delete an entry in fstab for a now non-existent logical volume. > > The system reports that the th

Re: [CentOS] secure boot.

2012-08-23 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 08/23/2012 06:56 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > On 08/23/2012 10:39 AM, John Doe wrote: >> From: Jimmy Bradley >>> I've been reading up some about the new "secure boot" that's >>> coming out on new machines when MS releases Win 8. Has a workaround been >>> developed yet for thos

Re: [CentOS] System will not boot - faulty fstab?

2012-08-23 Thread Ross Cavanagh
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Ross Cavanagh wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:17 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: > >> I believe that I made a boo boo recently when recovering some unused >> disk space. Without going into painfully embarrassing detail I need >> to delete an entry in fstab for a no

Re: [CentOS] System will not boot - faulty fstab?

2012-08-23 Thread Ross Cavanagh
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:17 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: > I believe that I made a boo boo recently when recovering some unused > disk space. Without going into painfully embarrassing detail I need > to delete an entry in fstab for a now non-existent logical volume. > > The system reports that the

[CentOS] System will not boot - faulty fstab?

2012-08-23 Thread James B. Byrne
I believe that I made a boo boo recently when recovering some unused disk space. Without going into painfully embarrassing detail I need to delete an entry in fstab for a now non-existent logical volume. The system reports that the there is a bad superblock for said logical volume. Mainly I expe

[CentOS] Gambas Compile on Any Version of Centos

2012-08-23 Thread Casey Kemp
I've unsuccessfully been attempting to get Gambas to compile on Centos 5.8. I've seen comment that it also doesn't compile on Centos 6.2. Has anyone gotten a successful compile of Gambas on any version of Centos. I'd greatly appreciate hearing from you.

Re: [CentOS] Centos machine sometimes unreachable

2012-08-23 Thread Richard Reina
2012/8/22 Les Mikesell > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Richard Reina > wrote: > > I have a simple perl script that every few hours pings the handful of > > machines on my LAN. Lately I've sometimes been getting > > > > ping of 192.168.0.1 succeeded > > ping of 192.168.0.7 succeeded > > ping o

Re: [CentOS] tigervnc-server-module crashes after EL 6.3 update

2012-08-23 Thread Cal Webster
On Fri, 2012-08-17 at 19:46 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 08/17/2012 01:40 PM, Cal Webster wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 17:01 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> On 08/16/2012 11:43 AM, Cal Webster wrote: > >>> On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 13:56 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 08/15/2012 09:47 A

Re: [CentOS] tigervnc-server-module crashes after EL 6.3 update

2012-08-23 Thread Cal Webster
On Fri, 2012-08-17 at 19:46 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 08/17/2012 01:40 PM, Cal Webster wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 17:01 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> On 08/16/2012 11:43 AM, Cal Webster wrote: > >>> On Wed, 2012-08-15 at 13:56 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 08/15/2012 09:47 A

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Re: [CentOS] Order of sata/sas raid cards

2012-08-23 Thread m . roth
Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > On 08/23/12 17:41, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Adrian Sevcenco wrote: >>> On 08/23/12 15:01, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: >> >>> I dont know about root(hd0,0) .. i have the grub and / installed on an >>> disk which by system is recognized as /dev/sdc and in grub.conf i have >>

Re: [CentOS] Order of sata/sas raid cards

2012-08-23 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
On 08/23/12 17:41, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Adrian Sevcenco wrote: >> On 08/23/12 15:01, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > >> I dont know about root(hd0,0) .. i have the grub and / installed on an >> disk which by system is recognized as /dev/sdc and in grub.conf i have >> hd(2,msdos1) >> > Ok... to fo

Re: [CentOS] Order of sata/sas raid cards

2012-08-23 Thread m . roth
Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > On 08/23/12 15:01, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > I dont know about root(hd0,0) .. i have the grub and / installed on an > disk which by system is recognized as /dev/sdc and in grub.conf i have > hd(2,msdos1) > Ok... to follow myself up, I started looking. There is zero indic

Re: [CentOS] Order of sata/sas raid cards

2012-08-23 Thread m . roth
Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > On 08/23/12 15:01, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > I dont know about root(hd0,0) .. i have the grub and / installed on an > disk which by system is recognized as /dev/sdc and in grub.conf i have > hd(2,msdos1) I've never seen anything like msdos1 - I assume it's a label, but

Re: [CentOS] Order of sata/sas raid cards

2012-08-23 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
On 08/23/12 15:01, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > Hi Adrian Hi! > yes this will do. > Because I do not know (yet) the UUID of the new partitions (drives), > if I specify the UUID for the known drives for the partitions > the kernel will assign the new drives to higher sdx? AFAIK the sdX names are gi

Re: [CentOS] Order of sata/sas raid cards

2012-08-23 Thread m . roth
Markus Falb wrote: > On 23.8.2012 14:01, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: >> Hi Adrian >> >> yes this will do. >> Because I do not know (yet) the UUID of the new partitions (drives), >> if I specify the UUID for the known drives for the partitions >> the kernel will assign the new drives to higher sdx? >>

Re: [CentOS] Loading drivers during "linux rescue"

2012-08-23 Thread John Doe
From: Jobst Schmalenbach > At least once I need to boot the rescue disk to select the > bootpartition and install grub on the new drives, I need to insmod > the drivers, but I do not know where and how to do that during > the boot process of the rescue disk (there is no menu for that). Look at t

Re: [CentOS] Loading drivers during "linux rescue"

2012-08-23 Thread Stu Watts
Hi Jobst, I believe you'll need to build a new initrd image and include the driver modules. Try http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/CreateNewInitrd for a start. There are other guides out there too. Good luck! Stu On 23 August 2012 13:08, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > Sorry, maybe I did not

Re: [CentOS] Order of sata/sas raid cards

2012-08-23 Thread Markus Falb
On 23.8.2012 14:01, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > Hi Adrian > > yes this will do. > Because I do not know (yet) the UUID of the new partitions (drives), > if I specify the UUID for the known drives for the partitions > the kernel will assign the new drives to higher sdx? > Is this correct? After r

Re: [CentOS] Loading drivers during "linux rescue"

2012-08-23 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
Sorry, maybe I did not give enough information. I have the drivers from adaptecs site (plus the kmod stuff). At least once I need to boot the rescue disk to select the bootpartition and install grub on the new drives, I need to insmod the drivers, but I do not know where and how to do that during

Re: [CentOS] Order of sata/sas raid cards

2012-08-23 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
Hi Adrian yes this will do. Because I do not know (yet) the UUID of the new partitions (drives), if I specify the UUID for the known drives for the partitions the kernel will assign the new drives to higher sdx? Is this correct? thanks Jobst On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:49:38PM +0300, Adrian Se

Re: [CentOS] secure boot.

2012-08-23 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 08/23/2012 10:39 AM, John Doe wrote: > From: Jimmy Bradley >> I've been reading up some about the new "secure boot" that's >> coming out on new machines when MS releases Win 8. Has a workaround been >> developed yet for those of us who don't want to run windows? Typically, >> I most

Re: [CentOS] Order of sata/sas raid cards

2012-08-23 Thread Adrian Sevcenco
On 08/23/12 12:13, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > Is there a way to tell the kernel in which order to load the drives > and assign the drive order in a way that the new drives are assigned > SDC and SDD and the old drives get SDA and SDB? use UUID= in fstab (lsblk -o NAME,KNAME,UUID) and you will get

Re: [CentOS] Loading drivers during "linux rescue"

2012-08-23 Thread John Doe
From: Jobst Schmalenbach > I got a new Adaptec 6405 card with a set of new harddrives. > Problem that I assumed that the card had kernel drivers, which it has but > only > from 2.6.39 onwards. > > I installed the kmod-aacraid drivers, they see the card and drives, fine. > > However, I need to

[CentOS] Order of sata/sas raid cards

2012-08-23 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
Hi. I bought a new Adaptec 6405 card including new (much larger) SAS drives (arrays). I need to copy content of the current SATA (old adaptec 2405) drives to the new SAS drives. When I put the new controller into the machine, the card is seen and I can see that the kernel loads the new drives

[CentOS] Loading drivers during "linux rescue"

2012-08-23 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
Hi I got a new Adaptec 6405 card with a set of new harddrives. Problem that I assumed that the card had kernel drivers, which it has but only from 2.6.39 onwards. I installed the kmod-aacraid drivers, they see the card and drives, fine. However, I need to get a "linux rescue" to work, thus I n

Re: [CentOS] secure boot.

2012-08-23 Thread John Doe
From: Jimmy Bradley >            I've been reading up some about the new "secure boot" that's >coming out on new machines when MS releases Win 8. Has a workaround been >developed yet for those of us who don't want to run windows? Typically, >I mostly build my own desktops, and I install cent os ri

Re: [CentOS] secure boot.

2012-08-23 Thread James Hogarth
On 23 August 2012 05:51, Jimmy Bradley wrote: > I've been reading up some about the new "secure boot" that's > coming out on new machines when MS releases Win 8. Has a workaround been > developed yet for those of us who don't want to run windows? Typically, > I mostly build my own desk