I have server with Xeon E5620, 8 GB RAM, three 1TB hard drives which are in sw RAID 5 and two 250GB disk which are in sw RAID 1, all of this on Intel S5500BC motherboard. Installation of opensuse 11.0 11.1 11.2 and Enterprise suse 11 was successfull. After grub menu i get blank screen. Its blank for about 60 - 120 sec and then appear Suse loading page and loading bar. This also happens if i change to text mod. But in text mod i can see whats going on. First 5-10 lines are informations about partitions and then i get output just like on this link.
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> I have server with Xeon E5620, 8 GB RAM, three 1TB hard drives which
> are in sw RAID 5 and two 250GB disk which are in sw RAID 1, all of
> this on Intel S5500BC motherboard. Installation of opensuse 11.0 11.1
> 11.2 and
> Enterprise suse 11 was successfull. After grub menu i get blank
> screen. It`s blank for about 60 - 120 sec and then appear Suse loading
page and loading bar. This also happens if i change to text mod. But
in text mod i can see whats going on. First 5-10 lines are > informations about partitions and then i get output just like on this > link. > > 'Yfrog Image : yfrog.com/5nimag0108dj' (http://yfrog.com/5nimag0108dj) > > If i hit any key (in graph and text mode) booting will continue to > opensuse loading screen and loading bar. > > I have tried installations on one workstation and one server and > didnt have this problem.
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> Can someone tell me what can be cause of this and how to solve this
> problem?
It’s almost certainly some hardware that isn’t getting initialized
properly. You will likely find more information /var/log/boot.msg.
> On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:16:03 +0000, grka wrote for a reply:
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>> Can someone give me just a hint ?
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> I read a TechRepublic article that states RAID 5 causes more failures
> than a failure of a single drive.
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Yes it will - minimum 3 times as many. The key quality in a RAID5 array
however, is the ability to survive that failure, whereas the key
problem in a single drive is the inability to survive a failure.
