10.3/11 both fail to install on 2 servers

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WTF?

I can install both 10/11 on my laptop just fine. When I try to install 11 on a raid 5 server it fails about 7 different things and errors out. So I tried 10.3 and it fails installing boot loader grub.

The servers have 3ware 9650se 4 port with sata/raid 5 and intel duo cpu.

What am I doing wrong? This is aprox the 3rd time Ive loaded linux and never had a problem until now. I really need to get both these servers loaded. I did manage to install fedora 9 on one server just as a test.

Why wont suse 10.x or 11 install?

2

Today i had the same problem with 3ware 8 port with sata/raid 10 and intel xeon quad processor.

Installation is works OK but grub fails to install on MBR of sda1 ().

Please advice how to setup the installation.

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GRUB won’t work right on the RAID. Try setting a 100MB boot partition and have LILO boot from the boot sector of that partition, not the MBR.

At least I had to do this when using RAID1 SCSI setup.

The other alternative is to use another drive not in the RAID to boot from.

4

OK problem solved

I used suse 10.3 and loaded LILO boot loader after grub fail. Works great and all is well.

5

Hi.

I’m not expert and can you explain with more details how to setup 100MB boot partition or to install Lilo.

I’m using 3ware raid with 4 TB storage.
The partition setup that i was tried is as follows:

/dev/sda/
/dev/sda1/ / (40 GB root drive)
/dev/sda2/ /swap (4 GB swap drive)
/dev/sda3/ /home (1.9 TB because of 2TB limit)
/dev/sda4/ /home1 (1.6 TB)

Setup tells that I can’t create additional primary partition /boot (max 4 primary supported)

The other thing is why i can’t create FS larger than 2TB

Please advice and thanks in advance.:slight_smile:

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3ware posted something about 2TB limit. I think you have to turn on auto-carving in controller.

Currently the array size is limited to 2 TB regardless of the operating system.

9500S/9550SX(U)/9590SE/9650SE/9690SA

While FreeBSD is limited to 2 TB max per array, you can use the auto carving feature to divide the array into 2 TB (or smaller) storage units. You can also create a boot lun if booting from the array. See the 3ware User’s guide for your controller for more details :: 3ware ::](http://www.3ware.com/support/userdocs.asp).

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Thanks problemchild.

The problem is solved.
I made boot partition 154 GB from raid without auto-carving. and 3.6 TB for storage
/dev/sda/
/dev/sda1/ /swap(4 GB swap drive)
/dev/sda2/ /(50 GB root drive)
/dev/sda2/ /backup (100 for system backup)
/dev/sdb/
/dev/sdb1/ /home (3.6 TB)

Everything work fine with opensuse 11.0 x64.