[ale] Continuing Saga of Centos 5.6

[Brian Schenken]

I wonder if the drivers used during install are somehow different than what
boots up afterwards.  I have a lazy suggestion if you're still fighting with
this - maybe install a virtual server, like Citrix XenServer and then build
a CentOS VM on that.  If the XenServer installs easier, then your
CentOS's perceived hardware will be exactly the same as thousands of other
users.

Cheers,
B

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> When I did the initial install, the installer saw the 3Ware mirror set as
> the primary drive and wanted to install there, I told it to install to the
> WD drives and then went with defaults. I am an amateur at this, so I
> probably hosed something but when I started over and chose install it read
> the existing install and shows the following:
>
> SDA 953663MB AMCC [i.e. 3Ware] 9650Se-2LP disk
> SDB 239422 ATA WDC WD2503ABYX-0
> SDC 239422 ATA WDC WD2503ABYX-0
>
> LVM Groups 00 14320320MB
>  Logvol 00 / ext3 1426368
>  Logvol 01  swap 5952Mb
>
> Hard Drives
> /dev/sda1 volgroup 00 LVM PV 953663MB Start 1 End 121575
> /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1 / boot ext 3 101MB Start 1 End 13
> /dev/sdb2 volgroup 01 LVM PV 239319MB Start 14 End 30522
> /dev/sdc1 volgroup 00 LVM PV 239429MB Start 1 End 30522
>
> I do recall there used to be a lot of trouble getting software RAID running
> off the motherboard controllers under Linux. Is it possible that we need a
> driver for this Intel SATA controller that is not on the install disc (BTW
> the machine is not plugged into the internet at this time, static IPs here
> and I'm not sure how to configure that during the install)?
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com>wrote:
>
>> I'm pretty sure you can't do /boot on LVM in RHEL/CentOS given that even
>> when they default to an LVM layout during install they still always create
>> /boot as the first hard partition and put LVM as the second hard partition.
>>
>> Every RHEL/CENTOS server we have has /boot on a partition rather than an
>> LV for this reason.  Never tried forcing it to LVM.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
>> Michael B. Trausch
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 10:12 AM
>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>> Subject: Re: [ale] Continuing Saga of Centos 5.6
>>
>> On 08/10/2011 09:33 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> > Even Fedora 15 still uses Grub v1.
>> >
>> > It's sufficiently different that Red Hat hasn't switched over.
>>
>> A shame, really.  GRUB 2 is far superior in every way.
>>
>>        --- Mike
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