Topic: software raid install problem

[darren]

im having a problem installing e-smith 5.5 using the software raid-1 option .i have two 10.2gb drives of different brands.the install goes fine but when i reboot i get missing operating system?  ,when i boot from the created floppy i get missing image?  i run through the install again selecting the  single drive option  and it installs ok no problems.i tried to install 5.1.2 using software raid  and i get the same problem as 5.5  .any help would be appreciated.thanks

[Robert Marmen]

I am also having the same problem. I upgraded from e-smith 4.x to the new system (downloaded from the Ottawa site) and ran into exactly the same set of issues, no kernel on disk and no kernel on boot floppy.

As this is an existing system, I do not want to re-install to a single drive since this will wipe out existing ibays.

Is there a workaround where I can mount the files from another rescue disk, such as tom's rootboot and then transfer the bays to another server? Or, is this an unfortunate situation that will be patched shortly?

Looking for any help.

regards,

rob...

[Darren]

i have managed to complete the raid install by shifting one drive to the other ide channel ,everything seems to work ok .i checked disk usage etc ,using the 2 10gb drives it shows i only have 4gb  free this dosnt sound right to me or am i miss understanding something   ????????

[Brian Go]

Well,

I put the drives on different IDE channels and it boots without the floppy.

I do not have an explanation to why this happens.

Brian

[mcd]

I think you have to use two "same" disk for soft raid in 5.5. "same" means equal cycl,head,sectors... so it is better to get two same brand, same model disks. Otherwise, sme may only detects half of your hd space(mostly) or not boot at all. It is like stop at "Li" or "LiL"....

if you need to check your hd, try following:
# df