Fedora 9 boot problem with HP NetRAID 1Si controller

2008-11-10 Thread Jack Lauman
I reinstalled Fedora 9 on a HP NetServer 2000 that had been previously running Fedora 4. Rebooting the machine following the install gives the following errors: Booting the kernel APCI: Resource is not an IRQ entry pnp: PnPACPI: METHOD_NAME__CRD failure for PNP0400 i2o: iop0 could not

Re: Fedora 9 boot problem with HP NetRAID 1Si controller

2008-11-10 Thread Alan Cox
i2o: iop0 could not activate controller (it stalls here...) As I recall when I originally installed FC4 it needed the megaraid_mbox driver. I sure it's not loading the right i2o driver either. Thats an ancient AMI Megaraid by the sound of it. Go into the megaraid bios settings and turn

Re: Fedora 9 Boot Problem

2008-10-27 Thread James Wilkinson
Seann Clark wrote: under linux, with the HP370 driver loaded into the kernel, it will work as a RAID that isn't managed or taxing the CPU. The HP controller will take care of all mirroring and striping aspects leaving the CPU free to do whatever else. Sorry, but I’m pretty sure this is

Re: Fedora 9 Boot Problem

2008-10-24 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Craig White wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID see the section on Firmware / Driver based RAID t4l. - -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition'

Re: Fedora 9 Boot Problem

2008-10-24 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Craig White wrote: by the way, there are no additional connectors for RAID as hard drive connections are entirely standardized and you use one of the known standards like IDE/PATA, SATA, SCSI-LVD, SCSI-SCA and probably some others. not true.

Re: Fedora 9 Boot Problem

2008-10-24 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 06:34 +, g wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Craig White wrote: by the way, there are no additional connectors for RAID as hard drive connections are entirely standardized and you use one of the known standards like IDE/PATA, SATA,

Re: Fedora 9 Boot Problem

2008-10-24 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Craig White wrote: OK - understand, motherboard with fake raid connectors for fake raid. not fake. see; http://www.motherboard.cz/mb/abit/kt7-raid.htm for view of board. [no longer shown on abit site] [note: do not get sidetracked and lost

Re: Fedora 9 Boot Problem

2008-10-24 Thread Seann Clark
g wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Craig White wrote: OK - understand, motherboard with fake raid connectors for fake raid. not fake. see; http://www.motherboard.cz/mb/abit/kt7-raid.htm for view of board. [no longer shown on abit site] [note: do not get

Re: Fedora 9 Boot Problem

2008-10-24 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:26 -0500, Seann Clark wrote: g wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Craig White wrote: OK - understand, motherboard with fake raid connectors for fake raid. not fake. see; http://www.motherboard.cz/mb/abit/kt7-raid.htm for

Re: Fedora 9 Boot Problem

2008-10-24 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Seann Clark wrote: I have to define, kt7-RAID, which I own a board with that on it, is i bow to your knowledge as an owner. raid was not a feature that caused me to buy board, but did help. i need a faster board and wanted amd. cpu and board were

Re: Fedora 9 Boot Problem

2008-10-24 Thread Seann Clark
g wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Seann Clark wrote: I have to define, kt7-RAID, which I own a board with that on it, is i bow to your knowledge as an owner. raid was not a feature that caused me to buy board, but did help. i need a faster board and wanted amd.

Re: Fedora 9 Boot Problem

2008-10-24 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 20:01:47 +, g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if ide1,2 are non raid, can ide3,4 be used as true raid under linux after linux install? There are significant advantages to just using software raid until Linux and not using the on board raid. (In particular you won't need

Re: Fedora 9 Boot Problem

2008-10-24 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Craig White wrote: translation...high point is fake raid though I don't want to denigrate high point stuff or their attempts to support Linux. from seann's later response, fake if all 8 drives are raid. not fake if ide1,2 = non raid and ide3,4 =

Re: Fedora 9 Boot Problem

2008-10-24 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bruno Wolff III wrote: There are significant advantages to just using software raid until Linux and not using the on board raid. this i understand, and have done. just not of late as needed drives for separate systems. did cause a lot of extra

Re: Fedora 9 Boot Problem

2008-10-24 Thread Alan Cox
translation...high point is fake raid though I don't want to denigrate high point stuff or their attempts to support Linux. To be honest the software RAID interfaces are usually better than hardware ones especially once you reach the world of PCI express where each controller has its own

Fedora 9 Boot Problem

2008-10-23 Thread Jack Lauman
I've got an ASUS M3N78-EMH HDMI motherboard with 2 Gb RAM AMD 5600 X2 proc. There are (2) Seagate ST350032NS (500 GB SATA drives) configure in the BIOS for a RAID1. The OS is RedHat Fedora 9. Following successful installation, it fails to boot. The grub boot loader displays correctly but

Re: Fedora 9 Boot Problem

2008-10-23 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 11:39 -0700, Jack Lauman wrote: I've got an ASUS M3N78-EMH HDMI motherboard with 2 Gb RAM AMD 5600 X2 proc. There are (2) Seagate ST350032NS (500 GB SATA drives) configure in the BIOS for a RAID1. The OS is RedHat Fedora 9. Following successful installation, it

Re: Fedora 9 Boot Problem

2008-10-23 Thread Jack Lauman
Here's the results of 'lspci -v' 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 82f1 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0 Capabilities: [c4] HyperTransport: Slave or Primary Interface

Re: Fedora 9 Boot Problem

2008-10-23 Thread Aldo Foot
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BIOS Raid1 ? on ASUS motherboard? sounds like fake raid and wouldn't be supported...at least not without some tacky vendor supplied driver. Perhaps you need to give us info on this BIOS RAID (lspci -v) I have a SuperMicro

Re: Fedora 9 Boot Problem

2008-10-23 Thread Jack Lauman
I tied setting up a software RAID1 during the install but I kept getting an error saying that there was an existing partition on the second disk. I checked with fdisk /dev/sdb and found that there were no partitions that fdisk could see. I've never had this problem before. Is there something

Re: Fedora 9 Boot Problem

2008-10-23 Thread Tod Merley
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Jack Lauman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tied setting up a software RAID1 during the install but I kept getting an error saying that there was an existing partition on the second disk. I checked with fdisk /dev/sdb and found that there were no partitions that

Re: Fedora 9 Boot Problem

2008-10-23 Thread g
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Craig White wrote: BIOS Raid1 ? on ASUS motherboard? sounds like fake raid and wouldn't be supported...at least not without some tacky vendor supplied driver. do not know about 'fake raid' on asus boards, but a few years back i had an asus main

Re: Fedora 9 Boot Problem

2008-10-23 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 19:30 +, g wrote: not familiar with 'fake raid', but have noted it mentioned before. any suggestions where i might look to increase my knowledge about 'fake raid'? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID see the section on Firmware / Driver based RAID Craig --

Re: Fedora 9 Boot Problem

2008-10-23 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 19:30 +, g wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Craig White wrote: BIOS Raid1 ? on ASUS motherboard? sounds like fake raid and wouldn't be supported...at least not without some tacky vendor supplied driver. do not know about 'fake raid' on