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evilbob01 n00b
Joined: 12 Apr 2007 Posts: 5
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Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:29 am Post subject: Installing 2006.1 on a Mylex DAC960 |
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Hello I am a noob and am trying to get gentoo to install on my system with a Mylex DAC960 I have used the Mylex software to setup a raid 5 array and have booted off the live Cd and then used modprobe DAC960. I now see some stuff in /dev/rd/ like c0d0 - c0d22 When I run the GUI installer it doesn't find any drives to partition, when I run the command line installer it crashes out when i get to partitioning.
any suggestions
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vaxbrat l33t
Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 731 Location: DC Burbs
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Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 4:41 am Post subject: generic raid installation |
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I'm not familiar with your RAID, but I do run Gentoo on a Compaq DL-380 with its SMART raid array. Gentoo didn't see any drives to work with until after I had used the HP Smart Start disk to setup a logical drive for the system disk. Perhaps you need to run a bios utility or specialty cd-rom to configure one or more drives in your array as a logical volume. Then after you get the system up, you can look into whatever tools you can get to configure additional logical volumes from the running system.
You may need to look out for the nomenclature of the resulting logical volumes. In the case of SMART, you don't see a /dev/sda<something> but rather a /dev/ida/c<number>d<number> name. I'm mother hen to a few Penguin RAID servers running RHEL 4. There, the logical drives do show up as a scsi lookalike ie /dev/sd<letter> |
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evilbob01 n00b
Joined: 12 Apr 2007 Posts: 5
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Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the quick reply. I have the software utility and I have made a raid 5 array and A logical disk (Mylex calls them system disks) then I initialized the system disk. found some nice instructions here http://support.ap.dell.com/support/edocs/dta/ATTILA/3default.htm
I still cannot see any drives when I run the gui installer though and the command line installer crashes out. any ideas?
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wolf31o2 Retired Dev
Joined: 31 Jan 2003 Posts: 628 Location: Mountain View, CA
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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evilbob01 wrote: | any ideas? |
Yeah, file a bug so the installer team can look into it and actually fix the problem.
The installer does disk detection using sysfs. Some drivers, like the CCISS and DAC960, do things differently from the rest of the drivers. Because of this, we have to special case them in the installer. None of us have a DAC960 available, so it likely simply wasn't tested/supported. _________________ Ex-Gentoo Developer
Catalyst/Genkernel Development Lead
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evilbob01 n00b
Joined: 12 Apr 2007 Posts: 5
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 8:32 pm Post subject: Thanks |
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Thanks again for the reply. I will file a Bug as soon as I can.
-Filed 3-13-07- I will update this post when it is resolved. |
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evilbob01 n00b
Joined: 12 Apr 2007 Posts: 5
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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 9:48 pm Post subject: Resolved |
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Comment #1 From Andrew Gaffney 2007-04-13 21:12:15 0000
That's because the installer doesn't yet support installing on raid arrays that
create retarded device nodes. This *might* be fixed in a newer version. You can
just do a normal install for now. Resolving this as later.
There it is. guess no raid for me |
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Polynomial-C Retired Dev
Joined: 01 Jun 2003 Posts: 1432 Location: Germany
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Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
when I installed Gentoo on my Mylex AceeleRAID 170 card back in 2003, I used knoppix to boot the system, partitioned the RAID-5 with knoppix by hand (use fdisk, this will definitely work) and then installed Gentoo by using the Install-HowTo from the point where it says how to install the stage-archive. This worked without problems and I'm now running Gentoo on that RAID-5.
Maybe this helps you a bit.
Cheers
Poly-C _________________ The manual said "Requires Windows10 or better" so I installed GNU/Linux...
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