Topic: 7pre1 drive config

[william_syd]

In regard to master-slave primary-secondary how should I connect 2 drives and a cdrom for raid 1 ?



Regards,
William.

[Gio]

What I've done is:

Primary Master: HDD0
Primary Slave: HDD1
Secondary Master CDROM

Cheers, Gio

[wjhobbs]

Check the manual.

As I understand it, recommended practice is to have each RAID drive as master on separate channels:

Primary Master: HDD0
Secondary Master: HDD1
Primary or Secondary Slave: CDROM

John

[william_syd]

I have tried both ways.

After the first reboot after updating via the software update panel it boots to a GRUB shell only.

Single drive install works ok.

I'm also unable to get the CD media check to pass. MD5 of the downloaded iso is correct.

Have just installed Centos 4.2 but don't think it did a raid 1 install. Disk size is almost the sum of the two drives. Will have to find out how to do a raid 1 install.


Regards,
William.

ps. This might help me

[william_syd]

Appears to be working fine now.

Downloaded another copy of 7pre1 onto the Centos install and burnt it from there at 1x.

Still failed the media check but installed quicker with less disk thrashing than before.

Did updates from server panel but it always said same updates still available after reboot.

Tried from console with yum and had a few download errors and no more mirrors messages. Several attempts and all updates installed.

Machine rebooted and still working.


Regards,
William.

[chris burnat]

"Did updates from server panel but it always said same updates still available after reboot."
Did you do a full reconfiguration of the system?  

If anything doesn't work correctly with version 7, please report via the bug tracker - Use the button/links located on the left or go to http://bugs.contribs.org/enter_bug.cgi - you may need to register. Please describe exactly what you have done and exactly what you see in response.  You appear to have run into a number of issues with vwersion 7, submit one bug per issue please, it will make the life of the people at Bugzilla easier.

[william_syd]

Before I raise a bug report I have a question.

Say there are 10 updates listed in the server panel.

All are selected and the update started.

Now, say the 5th update fails to be downloaded, what occurs next ?

How does this compare to what happens with yum in a console window ?



Regards,
William.

ps That was 2 questions.

[william_syd]

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Did you do a full reconfiguration of the system?  

The other option under reboot/shutdown. Yes I did.

Don't remember if I got the red writing about needing to reboot.



Regards,
William

[chris burnat]

Hello William,  I am not the right person to answer your questions.  I am just fielding, monitoring the forums for people discussing possible bugs in SME7 and directing them to the bugzilla @ http://wiki.contribs.org/bugzilla, where the developpers will check it.  Your post appears to fall into the target category.  Your input may assist in pinning down an issue known to the team at SourceForge.  If not a bug, no harm done. Thanks.

[azche24]

I have tried both ways.

After the first reboot after updating via the software update panel it boots to a GRUB shell only.

I had this kind of error when i did first installation of SME7b9 to a MB with 2 SATA drives connected to NVIDIA-RAID. This controller defaults to RAID0, which is not what you want.  Had grub error after complete installation of SME, because installation wrote the files, but boot manager could not read it.

So you should check, if there is any onboard raid controller and if so choose pseudo-RAID1 (that is what i did) or choose JBOD.

Also i would advise you to lowlevel format both disks first.