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[Bug 298338] New: dmraid based installation on FSC rx220 not possible
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- Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 03:25:19 -0600 (MDT)
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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=298338
Summary: dmraid based installation on FSC rx220 not possible
Product: openSUSE 10.3
Version: Alpha 7
Platform: x86
OS/Version: openSUSE 10.3
Status: NEW
Severity: Major
Priority: P5 - None
Component: Installation
AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ReportedBy: Winfrid.Tschiedel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
QAContact: jsrain@xxxxxxxxxx
CC: daniel.rahn@xxxxxxxxxx
Found By: Beta-Customer
Since openSUSE 10.3 alpha5 a dmraid based installation is not possible.
There is a rx220 available at Novell.
Following items where tested :
1) Installation to a disk with already allocated and formatted (EXT3)
partitions.
1a) Partition is formatted and empty - assignment of partition without
format is not possible
1b) Assignment with format works - but openSUSE fails to format the partition
system code : -3030
2) Installation on an empty disk,
I just succeeded once doing this, all the other times I ended up with
system code : -3030
And I have no idea, what was different at that time, when I succeeded
with the start of the installation.
3) The only time when I succeeded installing openSUSE 10.3 alpha# ( #: > 4 )
the first boot failed, because none of the partitions was found
( partitionname /dev/mapper/pdc_......._part# )
4) Please read also Bug 279837,
Novell tells you during installation that incase of dmraid only a MBR
can be written - in case of rhel5 or fedora there is also a bug,
but grub is able to write a boot-record to the partition, how to do this
is described in a gentoo howto, please read
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_with_NVRAID_using_dmraid
Installing GRUB
Method 1
This method does not work on openSUSE
Note:
I suppose that you can reproduce the above describe problems on any
RAID configuration supported by dmraid
( I did not all above decribed steps on a FSC Econel 100 S2,
which has a ICH8R chipset with SATA Raid and LSI firmware )
Additional information : Please see also Bugzilla Entry 224219 at RedHat
RHEL5 dmraid panic with isw metadata (ESB2/ICH8)
Description of problem (224219) :
A WS3990 configured with Intel dmraid1 will kernel panic if any of the drives
are pulled the system will not boot regardless of which drive is pulled 0 or 1.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel 2.6.18-1.3002.el5 x86_64
dmraid-1.0.0.rc13-2.el5
How reproducible:
100%
Steps to Reproduce:
1. raid1 configured in the Intel raid bios.
2. Install RCS7 on a Dell WS390.
3. Remove any drive system kernel panics upon reboot.
This problem was also reproducible with openSUSE 10.2
According to my tests, the problems are independant of the used RAID firmware
( Intel or LSI )
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Summary: dmraid based installation on FSC rx220 not possible
Product: openSUSE 10.3
Version: Alpha 7
Platform: x86
OS/Version: openSUSE 10.3
Status: NEW
Severity: Major
Priority: P5 - None
Component: Installation
AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ReportedBy: Winfrid.Tschiedel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
QAContact: jsrain@xxxxxxxxxx
CC: daniel.rahn@xxxxxxxxxx
Found By: Beta-Customer
Since openSUSE 10.3 alpha5 a dmraid based installation is not possible.
There is a rx220 available at Novell.
Following items where tested :
1) Installation to a disk with already allocated and formatted (EXT3)
partitions.
1a) Partition is formatted and empty - assignment of partition without
format is not possible
1b) Assignment with format works - but openSUSE fails to format the partition
system code : -3030
2) Installation on an empty disk,
I just succeeded once doing this, all the other times I ended up with
system code : -3030
And I have no idea, what was different at that time, when I succeeded
with the start of the installation.
3) The only time when I succeeded installing openSUSE 10.3 alpha# ( #: > 4 )
the first boot failed, because none of the partitions was found
( partitionname /dev/mapper/pdc_......._part# )
4) Please read also Bug 279837,
Novell tells you during installation that incase of dmraid only a MBR
can be written - in case of rhel5 or fedora there is also a bug,
but grub is able to write a boot-record to the partition, how to do this
is described in a gentoo howto, please read
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Gentoo_with_NVRAID_using_dmraid
Installing GRUB
Method 1
This method does not work on openSUSE
Note:
I suppose that you can reproduce the above describe problems on any
RAID configuration supported by dmraid
( I did not all above decribed steps on a FSC Econel 100 S2,
which has a ICH8R chipset with SATA Raid and LSI firmware )
Additional information : Please see also Bugzilla Entry 224219 at RedHat
RHEL5 dmraid panic with isw metadata (ESB2/ICH8)
Description of problem (224219) :
A WS3990 configured with Intel dmraid1 will kernel panic if any of the drives
are pulled the system will not boot regardless of which drive is pulled 0 or 1.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel 2.6.18-1.3002.el5 x86_64
dmraid-1.0.0.rc13-2.el5
How reproducible:
100%
Steps to Reproduce:
1. raid1 configured in the Intel raid bios.
2. Install RCS7 on a Dell WS390.
3. Remove any drive system kernel panics upon reboot.
This problem was also reproducible with openSUSE 10.2
According to my tests, the problems are independant of the used RAID firmware
( Intel or LSI )
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