Gentoo on a Compaq Proliant DL380 (with SmartArray 5300)

Boston_Mike · n00b Joined: 17 Aug 2003 Posts: 12 Location: Boston, MA

I just did a stage 1 install from a 2004.1 Universal Live CD on a HP Proliant DL360 and I want to add a couple notes.

s970501 · n00b Joined: 01 Dec 2003 Posts: 38

I used 2004.2 livecd.

bind /dev and enjoy gentoo on it

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whschwartz · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 4:02 am Post subject:

I've booted off the universal live CD and when I try to modprobe cciss I get a "Can't locate module cciss".

How do I get around this on a read only file system? so I can see my array?

whschwartz · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 4:41 am Post subject:

figured it out, just had to boot with the smp option.

Wyckliff · n00b Joined: 14 May 2004 Posts: 7

Thanks for the posts, I'm installing on a ProLiant DL360 and was scratching my head when it couldn't find the root partition. I knew I had Smart Array 5xxx support compiled in, and grub didn't give me any grief when I was setting it up so I was scratching my head until I read about needing to create the /dev entries as cxdxpx.

I rebooted the LiveCD and found these were already created so I just updated grub.conf to use them. I rebooted and this time grub was able to boot my system, but I had another problem: it couldn't remount the root partition rw and move on because now the disk partitions were being named /dev/cciss/host0/target0/part*. So I updated fstab with this info and then I was in business.

nam

Just get an evaluation unit, loaded with RH AS3 already.
Reformat it with Gentoo 2004.2 AMD64 Universal CD.

astaines

Problem :- Grub crashes out at

killercow · Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2004 10:02 am Post subject: on a dl360 G1

The only way i managed to install a working bootloader on my dl360 G1 using the onboard scsi hardware was the following.

If i try to install the lilo config while im runnig the kernel from the hdd, it borks because the lilo program can't find the right partitions,
If u change the partiotions, then lilo and the kernel won't be able to find them at boot time, hanging the kernel because it can't find the boot and root partitions.

When the system is booted the partitions are mapped like this:

astaines

I'm installing from the 2004.0 live CD on a Compaq DL380. All goes swimmingly until the chroot phase. The problem is best illustrated as follows :-

preacher · Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2004 12:01 pm Post subject:

I was unable to get grub working on a DL360 system, even when following the instructions outlined in this thread, and had to settle for lilo.
I'm using kernel 2.6 and nptl, if that has anything to do with it.

However, on a bit of a sidetrack... Has anyone been able to flash the bios of the DL360 using the Online Rom Flash from HP, available here?

After I updated the syntax for tail in the file using sed, I could execute the file, but it segfaults after answering "y" to if I want to update. For me, the ROM-image thankfully was not damaged, but not updated either. What gives?

(To change syntax of tail used in the update-file use the following command: )

killercow · Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 11:18 am Post subject: instructions

Preacher, could you give us some more info on how you did this?

I didn't document the install process of my dl360 G1 with 2.4 kernel and lilo all that well, and i would love to update the kernel to a 2.6 version.

I would like to see which version of the live-cd you used, what your lilo.conf looked like, and what your fstab looks like.

(im a bit scared my system might crash one day and since its a prduction machine i can't take a couple of hours to figure out how on earth i got the damn thing to boot in the first place., i have the normal backup etc, but *what if*)

I would also like to know if i can savely update lilo to a newer version whitout updating the master boot record (since i can only do that from the live-cd, as the kernel i currently run has a different mapping of the disks as lilo has during boot time and thus i can't get the lilo.conf correct.)
I noticed updating the kernel also needs some tinkering in the MB, and i can only do so with the live-cd because of the same problem, or is there a way or replacing the kernel without using lilo.

preacher · Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 12:44 pm Post subject:

I booted with full Live-CD 2004.2.

I bootstrapped using first "emerge --nodeps --oneshot linux26-headers", then scripts/bootstrap.sh, all this with nptl and nptlonly in my USE-flags.
You have to boot the 2004.2 live-cd with smp in order to get a 2.6-kernel I think, which is needed for nptl installation (I think).

I also unmerged devfs in favor of udev.

Then emerged system as normal, and emerged lilo.

My fstab:

killercow · Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 2:34 pm Post subject: lilo update

Preacher,

how did you get lilo to actually load the config file into the MB while the contents of the conf doesn't compare to the setup it finds in /dev ?

If i try to update the config with a config file not resembling the dev dir tree it just borks.

(maybe udev makes a difference, or maybe the driver for this chipset in the 2.6 kernel is different and provides the given dev dirs on both the live-cd and in the normal kernel.

Il do some more recon before i try anything for real.

preacher · Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 2:50 pm Post subject:

Hmm...
I think that the first time I rebooted after installation, I had the used the /dev/cciss/disc-whatever path that was correct at the time, in both my fstab and lilo.conf.
Lilo swallowed that, but gave some kind of warning.
When I rebooted it couldn't find the root-file system cause my fstab was all wrong, so back with the live-cd and change the fstab.

So this short answer should work: Use the /dev-path for lilo.conf that is correct when booting with the live-cd, and change it after your system is up for coming kernel updates.

tbart · Apprentice Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 151

Hello!
After fiddling around for quite a while (and with the great support of this thread - thanks! ) a managed to get my compaq working.

Configuration:

rojaro · l33t Joined: 06 May 2002 Posts: 732

Could not get Grub to work on a DL380 while installing from 2.4.27 Kernel ... always said that it could not find hd0 when executing "root (hd0,0)" from shell. Everything was mounted properly (including bound /dev to /mnt/gentoo/dev and proc), but it just would not find the drive. So i used lilo instead which worked perfectly.

volumen1 · Guru Joined: 01 Mar 2003 Posts: 393 Location: Missoula, MT

I just recently installed Gentoo on an HPDL360 G3. I have done several installs on DL320s and other random HP and Compaq servers (all of which have some form of the Smart Array) in the past without problem.

However, this one was a real pain.

The main problem that I seemed to be having (and it sounds like others here are having) is that grub didn't recognize the Smart Array's logical drives. That is to say, /boot/grub/device.map only had entries for (fd0). It sounds like many others are using Lilo, but that didn't work for me.

Here is how I got it rolling with grub.

Failed Attempt 1) At first, I just edited the device.map file and added the following entry

cazort · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 4:08 pm Post subject:

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! I had this exact same problem. Your solution fixed it and although I did still have some pain, and some different things, your grub commands worked like a charm. I would not have figured this out on my own!

:-)

volumen1 · Guru Joined: 01 Mar 2003 Posts: 393 Location: Missoula, MT

I'm glad to be able to help. I just about pulled my hair out on this one, so if I can help someone else avoid even a fraction of that hair-pulling time, then it's all worthwhile. The Gentoo user community is the best!
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F.Ultra · Apprentice Joined: 17 Mar 2004 Posts: 169 Location: Sweden

I have put up an ebuild for the HP Raid management utility for console, it works fine with my HP/Compaq machines and perhaps you might find it useful aswell?

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77497

thegerb · n00b Joined: 22 Jan 2005 Posts: 16

I'm just about to start installing on a DL360G1 for the third time and I'm SO happy I found this thread.

One thing I can't get my head around is that you mention the drives being defined as /dev/cciss/c0d0px

On my previous attempts I found them as /dev/ida/c0d0px

What is the difference and do I really need cciss

thx
Kev

volumen1 · Guru Joined: 01 Mar 2003 Posts: 393 Location: Missoula, MT

Sounds like maybe you are using the cpqarray module? Different Smart Array controllers take different drives. So, cpqarray creates drives in /dev/ida/* and cciss creates them in /dev/cciss/*. Also, it seems like different version of each of these modules create the the * part differently. Sometimes it's like host0/target0/disk or part1. Sometimes it's c0d0p0.
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F.Ultra · Apprentice Joined: 17 Mar 2004 Posts: 169 Location: Sweden

On a DL360G1 the integrated smart array is an CPQARRAY which have /dev/ida/c0d0px. The CCISS modules are for the external arrays (such as the 5300 range) or for the integrated smart arrays in the new servers such as DL360G4.

thegerb · n00b Joined: 22 Jan 2005 Posts: 16

I'd agree that for the DL360G1 it is the CPQARRAY - 'cos it finds the drives

I'm at the chroot stage and my problem now is that even though i used "mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev"
"mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc"
"chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash"
"env-update"
* Caching service dependencies...
"source /etc/profile"

if i now try ping www.xxx it can't find the command
in fact it can't find most commands

Have I missed something?
Or can I proceed?

volumen1 · Guru Joined: 01 Mar 2003 Posts: 393 Location: Missoula, MT

It sounds like you didn't unpack the stage tarball? Do you have a /usr/bin, /bin, /usr/sbin in your chroot?
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