HP DL360 w/ Minimal Install

Drasica · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Apr 2006 Posts: 133

I'm trying to install gentoo on a HP DL360 which uses the SmartArray 5i raid controller. I've initailaized a raid1 mirrored logical volume with the controller, and now I'm using fdisk to partition...

But when I type fdisk /dev/rd/c0d0, I get an 'Unable to Open' error.

I've tried /dev/ida/c0d0, /dev/sda, and dev/hda (even thought it shouldn't be any of those), and those don't work either.

Is it a driver thing because I'm using the minimal disk? (I am new to doing installs on servers, excuse my ignorance)

If not, what am I doing wrong?!

davascript · l33t Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 618 Location: Pennsylvania

If it is a driver issue the array won't show up when running the following command:

elgato319 · Guru Joined: 15 Sep 2005 Posts: 546

did you try: /dev/cciss/c0d0 ?

Drasica · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Apr 2006 Posts: 133

I did use fdisk -l, and I cciss/c0d0 worked. Thanks!

...But new problem:

Everything has installed fine, but I've run into grub problems.

I had trouble with grub install using cciss/c0d0 (no entry in the dev map), so I put (hd0) /dev/cciss/c0d0 in grub's device.map, and the 'grub install' then ran fine.

But it won't boot!

It the kernel loads a little way and then there's a kernel panic: not syncing:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (1,0)

Do I need to install a cciss module? Could someone give me a pointer as to what it would be called and how I would find it in menuconfig?

elgato319 · Guru Joined: 15 Sep 2005 Posts: 546

I have this compiled into the kernel:

Drasica · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Apr 2006 Posts: 133

OK,

so I've rebuilt the kernel so that the cciss driver is built in... but I'm getting the same error. I still think it may be a driver thing because when I get the VFS it says:

VFS: cannot open root device: "cciss/c0d0p3"
Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:

0100 4096 ram0 (driver?)
..
.
.. etc until
010f 4096 ram15 (driver?)
0300 4194320 hda driver: ide-cdrom

The lack of anything cciss/c0d0 in the above list makes me thing I'm still missing drivers.

I have ext3 and everything compiled. Do I need to add any scsi drivers other than what is defaultly checked in menuconfig?

elgato319 · Guru Joined: 15 Sep 2005 Posts: 546

those should be enough:

Drasica · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Apr 2006 Posts: 133

Yes, c0d0p3 is my root.

I have SCSI support enabled and the SmartArray driver built in. What on earth could i be doing wrong?!!

Drasica · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Apr 2006 Posts: 133

I don't need an initrd, do I?

What do the ram0 (driver?) messages mean?

nativemad · Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 4:46 pm Post subject:

The only thing that the initrd would offer in your case would be a minimal shell, where you could look, if the devices are in their place....
just emerge genkernel and do an genkernel initrd and you should get one! :wink:

i think the ram0 is just for shm (ramdrive)

You could try out from the livecd which module is really the right one... just rmmod until the array disappears... :wink:

It could also be, that the array becomes a different naming with different kernels.......

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