[ale] Continuing Saga of Centos 5.6

[Greg Clifton]

Brian,

No, the problem wasn't with the HDD drivers it was with the partitioning and
location of / and /boot. With help from Jim K and some of the other folks on
the list, plus the CentOS how to page, I was able to properly configure the
software RAID and I got the system out the door yesterday.
Thanks to all who replied. This was my first CentOS install and basically my
first Linux install on a software RAID. Boss wasn't happy that it took so
long to figure out, but on the whole it was pretty painless and I'm much
more confident in my partitioning skills.

Greg Clifton

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Brian Schenken <brian.schenken at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>>>
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