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[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Lew Wolfgang wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm having a problem installing 10.3 x86_64 on a box with
> many raid disk controllers and disks.  It has two disks
> mounted in the back that are supposed to be the system
> disks, configured as a raid1 mirror.  Alas, this disk
> shows up after all the other disks, in this particular
> case as /dev/sde instead of /dev/sda.

In general, if you want the system disks mirrored in
hardware RAID, then you should get a motherboard which
has a RAID controller on it.


> A full install goes well until the first boot.  The boot
> fails saying it can't find /dev/sde3 (the root partition).
> It eventually drops into a limited sh shell running out
> of ram.

Not surprising.  If the module for the RAID card isn't
in the initrd, then you're not going to boot successfully.

> This box worked ok when the system disk appeared as /dev/sdc.
> I wonder if there is some bug about booting from disks too
> far removed from /dev/sda?

Probably.

> I've got a call in to the manufacturer to see if there's
> a way to have the system disks show up as /dev/sda, but
> no word from them yet.

At this point, I would say, re-arrange your disks, and
use software RAID until you can find a motherboard which
has built-in hardware raid for /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.
It will eliminate a lot of headaches.

> Anyone seen this behavior?  The controllers are 3-Ware,
> the disks SATA, if that matters.


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