Hi guys,
I'm trying to setup SW raid on this system, and luckily didn't hit the "kernel won't boot" bug reported for this MB.
There are two sata (1 Promise 20378 & 1 Intel ICH5), and one ICH5 PATA controllers on this motherboard.
The issue seems to be that the fedora installer starts the ata_promise (promise sata driver) before ata_piix (intel sata driver), but the bios (and grub after the reboot) sees the disk ordering with the Intel controller first.
I did a test install with / on SW RAID1, and was able to run "find /boot/grub/stage1" in the grub command line and run the appropriate "root (hdX,Y)" and "setup (hdX)" (where X and Y means drive number and partition number respectively).
The problem is that "find /boot/grub/stage1" hangs from the grub floppy I created (as specified in the grub info pages with the "dd" command) with the extra partitions I've setup (what I want for my production setup) with /boot in raid1, and / on raid5 and three other raid5 partitions as mentioned below.
I have attached a file with /proc/partitions output, and "fdisk -l" output for each of my four SATA drives.
md0 is /boot as RAID1 on sd[ab]1 (100MB each partition)
md1 is / as RAID5 on sd[ab]2 and sd[cd]1 (10GB each partition).
The rest of the partitions are /web /ftp and /mail, for the planned services to be run on this server (but I don't know the default locations for those in RH/Fedora, so these are temporary names).
Any ideas on how to get this working?
Thanks,
Mike
major minor #blocks name 7 0 73420 loop0 8 0 160086528 sda 8 1 104391 sda1 8 2 10241437 sda2 8 3 1020127 sda3 8 4 1 sda4 8 5 20482843 sda5 8 6 20482843 sda6 8 7 107747923 sda7 8 16 160086528 sdb 8 17 104391 sdb1 8 18 10241437 sdb2 8 19 1020127 sdb3 8 20 1 sdb4 8 21 20482843 sdb5 8 22 20482843 sdb6 8 23 107747923 sdb7 8 32 160086528 sdc 8 33 10241406 sdc1 8 34 1020127 sdc2 8 35 104422 sdc3 8 36 1 sdc4 8 37 20482843 sdc5 8 38 20482843 sdc6 8 39 107747923 sdc7 8 48 160086528 sdd 8 49 10241406 sdd1 8 50 1020127 sdd2 8 51 104422 sdd3 8 52 1 sdd4 8 53 20482843 sdd5 8 54 20482843 sdd6 8 55 107747923 sdd7 Disk /dev/sda: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2 14 1288 10241437+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda3 1289 1415 1020127+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda4 1416 19929 148713705 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 1416 3965 20482843+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda6 3966 6515 20482843+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda7 6516 19929 107747923+ fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/sdb: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 13 104391 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb2 14 1288 10241437+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb3 1289 1415 1020127+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb4 1416 19929 148713705 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sdb5 1416 3965 20482843+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb6 3966 6515 20482843+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdb7 6516 19929 107747923+ fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/sdc: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 * 1 1275 10241406 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdc2 1276 1402 1020127+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdc3 1403 1415 104422+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdc4 1416 19929 148713705 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sdc5 1416 3965 20482843+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdc6 3966 6515 20482843+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdc7 6516 19929 107747923+ fd Linux raid autodetect Disk /dev/sdd: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdd1 * 1 1275 10241406 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdd2 1276 1402 1020127+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdd3 1403 1415 104422+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdd4 1416 19929 148713705 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sdd5 1416 3965 20482843+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdd6 3966 6515 20482843+ fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdd7 6516 19929 107747923+ fd Linux raid autodetect
