I have a Compaq ML530 with 2 73GB drives (RAID1) on a Compaq SmartArray controller. These are my boot drives. I have 1 36GB drive on internal SCSI. I then have 4 36GB drives (RAID5) on an Adaptec RAID controller. I load Sarge doing a netinstall.
My first hurdle is getting grub to load on the SmartArray drives. It SAYS it works fine, but when I reboot, I get an error stating missing operating system. I was able to get around this by doing an expert install and loading lilo on the first partition. I would prefer to have grub working, but I am willing to live with this if necessary. Now to my 2nd quandry and this one I haven't found a solution for. When I'm booting the box (once I got it to boot), it stops at Give root password or press CTRL-D to continue. I can hit CTRL-D and the box boots fine. However, the filesystems I put on the other two controller's disks, aren't mounted. I can mount them with a mount -a and they mount correctly, but I'd rather have them mount correctly at boot. What it appears to me to be is that the controllers for the other two disks aren't being started in time to do the fsck on boot. So, what I need to know is how to check the order these controllers are being started in and how to correct if that is indeed the problem. I have another admin friend that is having the same problem with one of his new servers. His is more critical than mine, though as his filesystem that isn't mounting is /var so the box won't boot. I've done some googling for an answer, but, apparently haven't found the correct mystical google incantation that leads me to my solution. I'm more than willing to RTFM if someone would just point me to TFM. :-) Thanks in advance, Roger -- ~R~ ---------------------------------------------------------- Test-tube babies shouldn't throw stones. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
