Gentoo on a Compaq Proliant DL380 (with SmartArray 5300)

TiGeR WooD · n00b Joined: 11 Dec 2005 Posts: 44 Location: Belgium

hi all, i read all posts here but nothing help me to find a solution ...

anyone have an idea ?

here is my post
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-444193.html

thx a lot ...

chaosboy · n00b Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 11

I know I am probally missing something very simple, but i've gone over my server build and kernel config over and over and I can't figure out what I'm missing. When I boot from the Gentoo 2006.0 CD, lspci shows all of my PCI devices. When I boot from the hard drive, only a few PCI devices show up. Most notably, the Broadcom Host Bridge is not on the list as well as the IDE and USB contollers (I really need to get USB working). Unlike most people posting here, I have no issues with the array controller and my NICs work fine. The PCI hot plug shows up, and I have built in support for it. The server otherwise functions as it should. I know this is something I am just over looking. Can anyone help point me the right direction? Any ideas would be GREATLY appreciated!
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allengwinn · n00b Joined: 21 Aug 2006 Posts: 3

I just finished doing a major update on one of our DL380's and wanted to share something. After getting the kernel compiled, copied, and LILO configured (yes, we use LILO on our DL380's because it's been alot less trouble than grub--but I don't want the debate

... we rebooted and it wouldn't recognize /dev/cciss/c1d0p3 as it's /root partition.

I shelled out into the RAMdisk and looked in /dev. Instead of a cciss directory, I found the devices listed as "cciss!c1d0p1" through "cciss!c1d0p4".

So I changed /etc/lilo.conf to reflect append="append="init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/cciss!c1d0p3 udev".

Rebooted, and everything works just fine.

So if you find yourself missing a /root partition, you might want to be sure the device is really there and how the device is reflected in the initrd.

Hope this helps someone.

mediapirate · n00b Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 13

I've been reading up on this thread and I'm still stuck with configuring Grub. Here's my details bellow.

/DEV/C1D1
- /DEV/CCISS/C1D1P3 = HOME
- /DEV/CCISS/C1D1P1 = BOOT
- /DEV/CCISS/C1D1P2 = SWAP

/DEV/C1D0
- /DEV/CCISS/C1D0P1 = ROOT

Configuring Grub-

1) Grub
2) device (hd0) /DEV/CCISS/C1D1
3)root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83
4) setup (hd0)
checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
checking if "/boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 18 sectors are embedded succeeded
Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+18 p (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.list ... succeeded Done.
5) quit

6) Reboot

7) It doesn't even load Grub, it sits as though it doesn't fine the MBR.

This is a DL380 G3 with 1-RAID5 and 1-RAID1 ... the ROOT is loaded on RAID1 and the rest on the RAID5.

FSTAB

/dev/cciss/c1d1p1 /boot reiserfs noatime 1 2
/dev/cciss/c1d0p1 / reiserfs noatime,notail 0 0
/dev/cciss/c1d1p2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cciss/c1d1p3 /home reiserfs noatime,notail 0 0

ANY help would be greatly appreciated!!!

wizard69 · Apprentice Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 178 Location: Berlin

THX a lot Guys this thread helped me successfully complete my install on a HP ProLiant DL380 G5. I was also having problems installing grub which wouldn't recognize a disk to write to. Before i found this thread i stumbled accross this blog which proved to be extremly helpful

http://nozell.com/blog/2004/05/08/some-tips-to-reinstall-grub-on-an-hp-proliant-server/#comment-76534

This is what i did to get grub up and running

Make sure /boot/grub/device.map is setup right and looks like this mine only had an entry for fd0:

WhiteHat237 · n00b Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 21

Ok I've gotten past the grub install issue thanks to the help of this thread, however I ran into a new problem.

During boot, right after activating mdev, and determining root device, it tells me:

WhiteHat237 · n00b Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 21

Never mind, this was a kernel problem. It helps to boot the right kernel

Raposatul · n00b Joined: 25 Sep 2007 Posts: 53

Hello guys,

Like anyone of this thread I've got a problem.

After installing the grub and rebooted, grub fails to load, it says it Error 15: file not found.

I've installed Grub with the commands:

theholymac · Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 6:49 am Post subject:

This thread is a great help.

DL360 G2, dual 1.4GHz PIII processors. 5i raid controller, which uses the cciss module, NOT cpqarray. This is the module to use for the G3 as well.

The current (2007.0) livecd would not boot, so I dug out one of my old Knoppix livecds (3.9, I think?) and installed gentoo from there.

I used the /dev/cciss/c0d0px nomenclature everywhere, it worked fine in both fstab and grub.
Like WhiteHat237, I had to manually create the /dev/cciss and the entries within when booted from the livecd.

theholymac · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:46 am Post subject:

Nevermind, fixed

justincataldo · Guru Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 376 Location: Australia

Thanks for this!

ahbang · n00b Joined: 18 Aug 2008 Posts: 1

Thanks to everyone for writing to this thread - was installing on a Compaq DL360 G2 smart array 5i RAID1 with a 2007 gentoo liveCD.
(need to boot liveCD interactively and couldn't install networkless, so used the normal network install)

Exact same problems with grub and this

jzc-az · n00b Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Posts: 1

I want to drop a note about this as I just did an install on a DL360 G3.

I just booted the latest Gentoo LiveCD, went thru the steps in installing and only had a tiny bit of problem in getting GRUB installed and this link

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uprooter · n00b Joined: 06 Mar 2005 Posts: 70

I don't want to soil the party
but have you noticed this:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13127

cciss is very slow on recent kernel.