I have a Cisco UCS C22 M3 Rack server with build in LSI Megaraid controller (software raid controller or maybe what people call a fake/bios raid).
The installation process is going as expected and regardles of there is a build raid(1) or the disks are just configured as single seperate disks, the installation fails after the first reboot.
I have 2 SSD’s that I would like to have as a raid 1, but I don’t care if I have to use a software raid or fake raid.
Anyway the result is the same. After the first reboot after the installation, the server responds with:
i8042: No controller found
doing fast boot
Creating device nodes with udev
Welcome to emergency mode. Use “systemctl default” or ^D to enter…
Give root password for login
There is a guide from Cisco and LSI on how to add drivers when installing Red Hat and Suse Enterprice. The guides says to write “Brokenmodules=ahci, isci” and add a driver (using F6) in the first screen of the installation process. I have tried to follow the guide and not - and I have tried to add the LSI Megaraid driver from a USB-pen and also to go in Expert mode and add the driver from the “Load IDE/RAID/SCSI module” menu.
None of these attemps seems to work for me - I always end up with a nice installation menu and process without errors, only untill the first reboot.
Could someone maybe help me or give me a hint on what to try next in order to move on and get a succesfull installation?
There is no 12.3 yet, just the first release candidate.
If this is not for testing the distro purposes, but to get a stable system, install 12.2 or wait for the official release of 12.3.
Found a solution. Suse or the driver did not like a seperate home partition like the defaults is set up to. The solution was to only make one partition besides the swap and also add both MBR and / in the bootloader.
Hi claus232. Would you be so kind to give some detailed info on what you did? I have a rack server which has an LVM and is giving me the same problem. It might be that your solution would apply to my server also and I would like to try it. Thank you.
During the installation, when you get to the screen that shows how the harddrive will be partitioned, you uncheck the box that says “propose a seperate home partition”
and in the last installation screen, which shows a summary of the selected setup (where you typically select more software than the defaults" you click on the bootloader link, and then you get to a screen where you can select both the MBR and / as bootoptions (don’t really know if it makes a difference, but it worked).