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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