Greg, The XS hardware is up and running, and now am encountering some software issues that I may need help from the server-devel list to resolve.
Hardware: V3-M2A690G barebones PC with M2A-VM motherboard, power supply and tower case, The M2A-VM motherboard has ATI SB600 RAID controller, ATI Radeon 1200 Graphics, 8 USB ports, built-in NIC. AMD Athlon64 X2 dual-core 2.3 Ghz processor with heatsink/fan Two extra NIC cards (PCI) 10/100 with RJ-45 ports One DVD-RW drive, attached on primary IDE-Master Two SATA drives, 160GB each, connected on SATA1 and SATA2. One 2GB DIMM. I had it almost all together yesterday in four hours, but had to go back to the store to get an extra SATA power cable adapter and return an extra SATA signal cable. I took photos, so I might be able to document the process for future hardware builds. The XS-163.iso would freeze because there was no "Partition Table" on the disks. I was able to fully install "64-bit Fedora Core 8-AMD64" on the system, which was enough to put partition table on /dev/sda and format an ext3 file system. After that, I was able to fully install "32-bit Ubuntu 8.04" on the system. Both run in full graphics mode, and I was able to test all the memory, verify ethernet connectivity, etc. Problem 1: I boot from XS-163.iso and select "Run from Image" (the first choice) and it claims that "ATI Radeon 1200" is not supported, and that it will go into text-only mode for the install. I figure this is not really a problem, since this is a text-only server eventually. I suspect there are Radeon 1200 drivers on later versions of Linux, so it might be something I can fix after the fact. Problem 2: I log in as "root" and run the "./olpc-install" and it fails on line 23 saying "Specified nonexistent disk sda in clearpart command" with a big red button to "reboot". (see attached JPG file: img_4751b.jpg for screen shot) Rebooting without the XS-ISO cd results in running the current "32-bit Ubuntu 8.04" that I had installed previously, so it looks like it didn't wipe out anything. I tried this with both "XS-163" and "XS-150" (from back in February) and got similar failure messages. My next try will be the "XS-160-noauto" ISO file. I could also try to do the "kickstart" manually? Would that work? If I do that, would I be better off doing Fedora7-AMD64 instead or stay with the 32-bit version? Problem 3: the BIOS supports three settings: IDE, RAID and AHCI. With RAID, I can hit Ctrl-F to get to the FastBuild utility, and put the two drives into a single RAID-1 configuration, however, it does not seem that Linux recognizes that. With the two drives as one Logical RAID-1 drive, the Linux treats this as separate /dev/sda and /dev/sdb drives. I found this link, indicating that the ATI SB600 "fakeraid" support through the "dmraid" device mapper is supported in AHCI mode, but if I say AHCI on the BIOS setting, it treats the two drives separately. http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html#ahci I could instead go for a software-based Linux LVM mirroring. In that case, I might use the BIOS=AHCI setting, and then set up the LVM, but that is different than the LVM setup in that base XS kickstart file. Please advise. Tony Pearson Senior Storage Consultant, IBM System Storage? Telephone: +1 520-799-4309 | tie 321-4309 | Cell: +1 520 990-8669 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | GSA: http://tucgsa.ibm.com/~tpearson Blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/InsideSystemStorage AKA: 990tony Paravane, eightbar specialist
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