Ubuntu 8.10 on HP Proliant DL320 G5

[dravidan]

The installation completes fine with serial ATA RAID devices activated but when booting it drops to shell. This is what I see when I boot:

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Starting up ...
Loading, please wait...
[ 2.930100] hub 3-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 2
Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
- Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
- Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enought?)
- Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
- Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
ALERT! /dev/mapper/ddf1_R11 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!

BusyBox v1......
Enter 'help' ......

(initramfs)

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Is it possible to install Ubuntu in this server or should I give up and use Debian etch?

[cariboo]

How did you set up your raid array? Is it an add on card or is the raid onboard the motherboard?

Jim

[dravidan]

It an onboard RAID

[^[H3ad-Tr1p]^]

hi have the same problem

how did you have solved?

[dravidan]

Never resolved, I ended up going with 8.04 version of Ubuntu.
Here is the link to set it up in 8.04: http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-ins...software-raid1

[lptr]

What type do you use? Manufacturer number 445433-421 ? Is this with Intel Xeon on board chipset Intel 3210 and ethernet controller HP NC326i ?

Can you tell me, if SATA ctrlr can be set as normal 4 channel SATA controller not using any fakeRAID etc.?

Thanks

rob*

[dravidan]

It is with Intel Xeon 3050. I think I am using fakeRAID but see the above link for more info.

[lptr]

dravidan: Thanks for your fast reply.

My question was - if it is possible to switch it to normal SATA mode. For example for using just one single harddisk drive.

If you having tech docs of this machine handy, would you mind please having a look into it - for me? I would highly appreciate that. Even intensive researching the Internet to finding that manuals myself did not lead to any success, yet


rob*

[vortmax]

dravidan: Thanks for your fast reply.

My question was - if it is possible to switch it to normal SATA mode. For example for using just one single harddisk drive.

If you having tech docs of this machine handy, would you mind please having a look into it - for me? I would highly appreciate that. Even intensive researching the Internet to finding that manuals myself did not lead to any success, yet


rob*

I hit this same problem on the G-4's. Maybe the G5 is different, I don't know. I could not bypass the raid controller. The bios would boot using the configured raid array, then the OS would just seen individual drives.

To bypass it, I just set up 2 raid0 arrays (one per drive). There is still a software layer involved, but it makes the boot process and the OS agree on drive layout. I tried to build a software fakeraid on top of that, but it was really slow, so I gave up on it.

Now...I have an old G2 who's raid controller is recognized by linux and I'm running full bios level software raid1.

[lptr]

Anyone knows the difference between DL320 G5 and DL320 G5p ?

rob*