[ale] Continuing Saga of Centos 5.6

[Greg Clifton]

The mobo specs say the onboard SATA controller is Intel® 3420 if that is any
help.

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ran rescue mode from DVD but still no joy. Got the following error message:
>
> Booting Centos (2.6.18-238.e15)
> root (hd1.0)
> Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x8e
> kernel/vmlinuz-2.6.18-238.e15 ro root=/dev/volgroup00/logvol00 rhgb quiet
> Error 17: cannot mount selected partition
> Press any key to continue ...
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Boot is supposed to be on the mirrored WD drives on the mobo controller.
>> The 3Ware controller is for the data drives which are also mirrored. I told
>> the installer to install to the WD drives. I assume once I get it booting
>> off the mobo, I can load the 3Ware drivers (if necessary) to get to the
>> 3Ware RAID, but the installer did see the drives on the 3Ware, so maybe the
>> drivers will have already installed.
>> Thanks Jim,
>>
>> Going to try rescue now. If no go, I'll do a reinstall and babysit it more
>> than I did last time to see if there was some error that happened with the
>> previous install.
>>
>> Just curious, but what would cause Grub to choke during install? The disc
>> check said it was a good burn, so maybe fingerprints on the disc? Cosmic
>> rays?
>>
>> Greg
>>
>>  On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Is /boot in raid? Software raid is supported but hardware may require a
>>> kernel mod.
>>>
>>> That said, plain blinking underscore and no kernel failure data sounds
>>> like grub puked during mbr write in install.
>>>
>>> Use rescue on dvd and try grub unstall manually.
>>>
>>> Or zero first mb on drives and reinstall if you can't see anaconda.log in
>>> /root from rescue.
>>> On Aug 8, 2011 6:11 PM, "Greg Clifton" <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > So I downloaded the isos and burned the discs, scanned the first DVD
>>> for
>>> > errors and it passed, then ran the install for Server w/ GUI, entered
>>> the
>>> > root pwd and the machine chewed on the 1st disc without ever asking for
>>> the
>>> > 2nd. Eventually it said something like "successfully installed" remove
>>> DVD
>>> > and reboot. When I reboot, all I get is a blinking underline cursor. I
>>> > suspect that I need(ed) to load some driver for the hard drives during
>>> the
>>> > install, but it seems strange that I don't get a "no boot device,
>>> reboot and
>>> > select..." error or any kernel panic. Any suggestions?
>>> >
>>> > FYI, the configuration is:
>>> > Mbd: Asus P7F-M
>>> > CPU: Pentium Dual Core G6950
>>> > RAM: 2x KINGSTON 2GB DDR3 1333MHZ ECC UNBUFF
>>> > Boot HDD: 2x WD2503ABYX 250GB Enterprise SATA 7200rpm
>>> > Data HDD: 2x Seagate 1TB Enterprise SATA ST1000NM0011
>>> > Data Controller: 3WARE 9650SE-2LP KIT 2 PORT SATA II
>>>
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