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.
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.
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?
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.
Anyone seen this behavior? The controllers are 3-Ware, the disks SATA, if that matters.
I don't have an answer for you nor could I find anything except that apparently the company has been bought out by a non-Linux friend company (AMCC) and there are performance complaints now showing up. Here's a reference: http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/26605/ Fred -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org