Subject: Re: Mandrake install troubles with DAC960 RAID controller...
From: civileme (civileme@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2002 - 16:52:04 AKST
On Wednesday 02 January 2002 02:38 pm, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
> Yes, this is going out to the list, but this is primarily directed to
> civileme, since he is our resident Mandrake expert.
>
> Versions: 8.0 & 8.1
> Identical problems with both.
>
> System: Micron NetFrame Dual PIII-500
> 512MB of RAM
> DAC960 RAID controller
> Two 3Com 905B NIC's
> One built in Intel Ethernet Pro 100
> IDE CD-ROM drive
>
> OS: Currently Mandrake 7.0 with a 2.4.12 kernel. And everything is running
> juuuuust fine. :)
>
> Procedure: Booted off of CD. Hardware detect finds Symbios SCSI
> controller. Let's me select the language, accept the license, and select
> the type of install.
>
> It then goes into the HD/SCSI card detection and hangs.
>
> Investigation on the other screens reveals a rather strange situation. The
> kernel messages show (IIRC) the first two lines of the DAC960 driver
> messages. The "log" shows that insmod was invoked for the DAC960 module.
> But insmod never returns. On the BusyBox shell screen, a ps shows that
> insmod is running and using 0.0 CPU. Trying to kill insmod doesn't work.
> Neither kill or kill -9 will faze it.
>
> So there it sits. Hung. Unable to proceed. Holding up my server upgrade.
> And wasting four hours of my morning. :)
>
> Typing "expert" at the boot prompt doesn't avoid the above mess. I didn't
> try "noauto," however.
>
> Any ideas? Any workarounds?
>
> BTW, if you need more info, just ask. I can give you the output of
> anything you want. Except, maybe, `cat /etc/shadow`. :)
>
> Thanks.
> j----- k-----
Arrrrgggghhhh!!!!
Well it seems that the newer versions of the Mylex drivers have problems with
certain configurations. Mostly they will install but not boot, but with a
preconfigured system this might occur.
One case was a server with 3 34G IBM drives. It set up fine on RAID5, but
when using he Mylex software to do RAID 0 as 3 logical drives of 34G each...
nothing (it should be norted that the Mylex controller was identifying a 4th
drive with less than 100Mb storage which appeared to be some sort of RAMdisk.
Changing this to a single RAID0 logical volume of 102G made it work
immediately. No RAMdisk appeared.
linux noauto
plus
install your own driver
might help as well
You can do this by F1 at the splash screen
Better yet is to stick with the 2.2 kernel til the 2.4 drivers are
stabilized. Boot from CD2 and pick an alternate image from kernel 2.2. From
there you _should_ be able to install for both kernel 2.2 and kernel 2.4
And let me know how it turns out.
A history of the RAID install with Reiserfs running is at
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=754&lang=en
Yeh, I am Acar_Kangal, the contributor.
Civileme
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