On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 12:38:50PM +0200, Arne Metzger wrote: > I recently used d-i to install etch on a FujituSiemens Primergy F200. > That maschine has 6 SCSI-Drives built-in, which i have configured as > RAID5 (no Hotspare) using the Adaptec-BIOS. During POST and installation > the RAID-Array is shown as /dev/sda.
I am not familiar at all with I2O and don't have the hardware to
reproduce your issue, so we are going to need your help to solve this!
:)
> Then i have created a ext3-Partition /dev/sda1 for /boot and a LVM on
> /dev/sda5 using the rest of the Array-capacity for /.
> Installation proceeded fine.
>
> After rebooting the maschine, everything worked fine. System found LVM
> and could mount it correctely, but then failed to mount /boot (which is
> on /dev/sda1 - as i thought).
>
> I found out, that for the Adaptec 2100S the modules i2o-core and
> i2o-block are loaded. The modules find the Adapter correctely.
>
> But my /boot-partition - formerly known as /dev/sda1 - could now be
> found at /dev/i2o/hda1 after loading the i2o-modules.
>
> After changing the line in /etc/fstab from
> /dev/sda1 /boot [...]
> to
> /dev/i2o/hda1 /boot [...]
> and rebooting the maschine - it worked!
>
> Dont know, if that is a problem in d-i or in i2o...
After reading the I2O FAQ [1] it seems that the second path is only
accessing the first disk instead of the whole RAID array:
What are the various modules for?
[...]
I2O Block OSM (i2o_block):
This is the disk driver, which let you access your RAID array, or if
you don't have a RAID array configured to the single disks. You only
have access to the disks through this driver!
I2O SCSI OSM (i2o_scsi):
This driver let you direct access to the disks. NEVER use this driver
to mount a filesystem or so. If you do so, you could destroy your
data. Only use this driver, to monitor your disks for failure. You
could use the smartmontools to do so.
[...]
The data for your /boot partition are probably out of sync now. :(
Does /dev/sda1 exists on the system? What error message is printed when
you try to mount it? Is there any strange entry that shows up in kernel
messages (dmesg)?
Cheers,
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