Hi,
first of all, has anyone managed to install openSUSE 11.4 on RAID10 without major problems? While we are at it, has anyone done this easily for 11.3 either?
Not sure if HW (SATA controller possibly) is my problem or why it is so hard to get openSUSE 11.3-4 installed on my system. 11.3 I managed to install with following drive layout:
/boot RAID1
/ RAID10
/home RAID10
/swap RAID10
But after install the RAID devices are always corrupted, I had to manually (in repair mode) tweak the /etc/mdadm.conf, because the devices there we in wrong order, also /boot/grub/menu.lst had corrupted device numbers, like "root (hd0, 157) or something like that. Although I managed to get 11.3 to work with RAID10, it was not very easy.
Now with 11.4 I am facing worse problems, the install actually gets stuck on “Preparing disks… 1%” phase and I can not change to virtual console to see what is going on/wrong.
So my question first and foremost is: Has anyone actually installed successfully (and without the above mentioned problems) either 11.3 or better yet 11.4?
The machines I am installing are Dell Precision T3500 workstations, they have worked pretty solid with Linux in general. I’ve tried setting both AHCI and IDE mode for the SATA controller(intel 82801JI ICH10 Family).
On 03/09/2011 12:36 PM, pj69482 wrote:
>
> has anyone managed to install openSUSE 11.4 on RAID10
> without major problems?
do you mean one of the milestone or release candidates? i ask, since
11.4 is not publically released until tomorrow!
> While we are at it, has anyone done this easily
> for 11.3 either?
i know very little about RAID but wonder if you found and followed the
documentation provided if you might have more success?
there seems to be more documentation than i want to become familiar
with (with only one hard drive to worry about), see:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Adoc.opensuse.org+RAID
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DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[NNTP posted w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5, Thunderbird3.0.11, nVidia
173.14.28 3D, Athlon 64 3000+]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11
Well 11.4 is already available on the public mirrors almost everywhere, I was testing it in the hopes it would work better with RAID10 than 11.3 did. I am pretty familiar with creating raids with mdadm, but what I am trying to accomplish here, is to use the installer to install on RAID10, which is not much documented since it is quite new feature in the openSUSE installer. It seems to be impossible currently to install root on RAID10 device, at least with hardware configuration I have. Was just interested to know if this is a problem that effects everyone, since I suspect these rarer RAID configurations go untested, or if it is indeed just HW problem.
On 03/09/2011 01:36 PM, pj69482 wrote:
> Was just
> interested to know if this is a problem that effects everyone, since I
> suspect these rarer RAID configurations go untested
in that case, it would have been real good to have raised the question
in the pre-release forum DURING the test period, so that you and
other testers could have determined if what you were seeing is a (as
you mention) either a hardware OR a deficient software problem…and,
log a bug (if it is software) well prior to release…
well, that is what could have been done to increase the chances of
of there being no problem with 11.4…
i guess your subject of this thread is incorrect because you say you
are not looking for help, but “just interested” in whether it is a
hard- or soft-ware problem…
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DenverD
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD
[NNTP posted w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5, Thunderbird3.0.11, nVidia
173.14.28 3D, Athlon 64 3000+]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11
Well I need help in that sense I am really unsure if the RAID10 install feature is working for anyone else, because I am undecided if I am using the feature wrong, I have HW compatibility issue or the feature is broken. Anyway I believe I can not edit the subject afterwards?
As I said I can resolve the problem myself, by converting non-RAID installation afterwards to use RAID10. So I dont need anyone to explain how to achieve this the “hard way”, but I am interested to know if this could be done easier since I need to deploy openSUSE to several machines.
And sorry I was too busy to test the pre-release versions earlier, I do realize it is now too late to get installer fixed if the problem is indeed there, instead somewhere else.
What I am really hoping is that someone comes in and says that the install worked without problems for them and then I know I am not banging my head to the wall needlesly trying to solve this problem on my end. And that would be really HELPful.