[ale] Continuing Saga of Centos 5.6

[Greg Clifton]

Ran rescue mode from DVD but still no joy. Got the following error message:

Booting Centos (2.6.18-238.e15)
root (hd1.0)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x8e
kernel/vmlinuz-2.6.18-238.e15 ro root=/dev/volgroup00/logvol00 rhgb quiet
Error 17: cannot mount selected partition
Press any key to continue ...

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Boot is supposed to be on the mirrored WD drives on the mobo controller.
> The 3Ware controller is for the data drives which are also mirrored. I told
> the installer to install to the WD drives. I assume once I get it booting
> off the mobo, I can load the 3Ware drivers (if necessary) to get to the
> 3Ware RAID, but the installer did see the drives on the 3Ware, so maybe the
> drivers will have already installed.
> Thanks Jim,
>
> Going to try rescue now. If no go, I'll do a reinstall and babysit it more
> than I did last time to see if there was some error that happened with the
> previous install.
>
> Just curious, but what would cause Grub to choke during install? The disc
> check said it was a good burn, so maybe fingerprints on the disc? Cosmic
> rays?
>
> Greg
>
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is /boot in raid? Software raid is supported but hardware may require a
>> kernel mod.
>>
>> That said, plain blinking underscore and no kernel failure data sounds
>> like grub puked during mbr write in install.
>>
>> Use rescue on dvd and try grub unstall manually.
>>
>> Or zero first mb on drives and reinstall if you can't see anaconda.log in
>> /root from rescue.
>> On Aug 8, 2011 6:11 PM, "Greg Clifton" <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > So I downloaded the isos and burned the discs, scanned the first DVD for
>> > errors and it passed, then ran the install for Server w/ GUI, entered
>> the
>> > root pwd and the machine chewed on the 1st disc without ever asking for
>> the
>> > 2nd. Eventually it said something like "successfully installed" remove
>> DVD
>> > and reboot. When I reboot, all I get is a blinking underline cursor. I
>> > suspect that I need(ed) to load some driver for the hard drives during
>> the
>> > install, but it seems strange that I don't get a "no boot device, reboot
>> and
>> > select..." error or any kernel panic. Any suggestions?
>> >
>> > FYI, the configuration is:
>> > Mbd: Asus P7F-M
>> > CPU: Pentium Dual Core G6950
>> > RAM: 2x KINGSTON 2GB DDR3 1333MHZ ECC UNBUFF
>> > Boot HDD: 2x WD2503ABYX 250GB Enterprise SATA 7200rpm
>> > Data HDD: 2x Seagate 1TB Enterprise SATA ST1000NM0011
>> > Data Controller: 3WARE 9650SE-2LP KIT 2 PORT SATA II
>>
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