mot2thom
December 30th, 2008, 11:33 PM
Finally got 8.10 server up and running on a compaq 360G1 with mirrored smart array drives.
Symptom was after a smooth, successful OS install, reboot would fail with no disk activity after the low level hardware check completed (cursor would just blink). Adding to confusion was when mirrors were set up using the Integrated Smart Array Controller (ver. 1.50), 63+ Gb was available but during the OS install, 72+ Gb were available.
Kind of figured the problem was with GRUB, the MBR or Unbuntu not understanding the Array Controller.
Luckly, rebooting into the CD and choosing "rescue mode" provided and avenue to trouble shoot and access the disk.
fdisk -lu /dev/ida/c0d0 showed disk partitioned as:
c0d0p1 as data
c0d0p2 as extended
c0d0p5 as swap in extended
After much googling and trying to reinstall GRUB on /dev/ida/c0d0p1 and adding module cpqarray to the initramfs, I finally got the idea to install GRUB on /dev/ida/c0d0...and it worked...system booted and now I am happy.
Hope this is useful info.
Symptom was after a smooth, successful OS install, reboot would fail with no disk activity after the low level hardware check completed (cursor would just blink). Adding to confusion was when mirrors were set up using the Integrated Smart Array Controller (ver. 1.50), 63+ Gb was available but during the OS install, 72+ Gb were available.
Kind of figured the problem was with GRUB, the MBR or Unbuntu not understanding the Array Controller.
Luckly, rebooting into the CD and choosing "rescue mode" provided and avenue to trouble shoot and access the disk.
fdisk -lu /dev/ida/c0d0 showed disk partitioned as:
c0d0p1 as data
c0d0p2 as extended
c0d0p5 as swap in extended
After much googling and trying to reinstall GRUB on /dev/ida/c0d0p1 and adding module cpqarray to the initramfs, I finally got the idea to install GRUB on /dev/ida/c0d0...and it worked...system booted and now I am happy.
Hope this is useful info.