Hi everybody,
i am trying to install (with kickstart) a Dell Poweredge 1650 with two
18GB identical scsi disks.
I want the two disks mirrored via raid software and two swap partitions
( one per disk ).
I am using redhat 7.3 with pxe network installation that is working fine
with other architectures and without RAID.
I rebuild the initrd.img image using modules and kernel from
kernel-BOOT-2.4.18-18.7.x because of a problem with gigabit ethernet
drivers.
The ditribution i am using is the redhat 7.3 with all latest patches
that i am currently using to install and update other 80 hosts without
problems.
All the boot process is ok, aic7xxx, e1000, nfs and other modules are
loaded correctly, the the kickstart installation (with the correct
configuration files starts.
PROBLEM:
The partitions are created but the raid creation fails i think because
raid module is not loaded, can you help me ?
What i mainly don't understand is why loading of other modules like scsi
and nfs works while raid driver are not found.
Do they need to be in a particular directory in initrd.img and is there
any way to force to load them from a particular path?
thanks in advance
ciao
stefano
The error message i get is
"An error occurred trying to format md0. This problem is serious and the
install cannot continue"
On the kernel side (<alt> <f3>)) i have
modules to insert raid0 raid1 xor raid5 msdos jbd ext3 reiserfs jfs xfs
lvm-mod
module(s) to raid0 raid1 xor raid5 msdos jbd ext3 reiserfs jfs xfs
lvm-mod not found
on <alt><f4>
SCSI device sda: 35566478 512 byte hwdr sectors (18220 MB)
sda: sda1 sda2
SCSI device sdb: 35566478 512 byte hwdr sectors (18220 MB)
sdb: sdb1 sdb2
Adding swap.
.....
<6>md: bind <sda1,1>
<6>md: bind <sdb1,1>
<6>sda1's event counter: 0000000
<6>sdb1's event counter: 0000000
<3>md: md0 raid array is not clean, starting background reconstruction
<6>md: RAID level 1 does not need chunksize! Continuing anyway
<3> personality 3 is not loaded
<6>md: unbind <sda1,1>
<6>md: export_rdev(sda1)
<6>md: unbind <sdb1,1>
<6>md: export_rdev(sda1)
This is my kickstart configuration file
-------------------------------------------
lang en_US
langsupport --default en_US
text
network --bootproto static --ip 134.171.xx.xx --gateway 134.171.yy.yy
--netmask 255.255.255.0 --nameserver 134.171.zz.zz
nfs --server server.eso.org --dir /linux/redhat/7.3/os/i386
# select keyboard
keyboard us
# reset Master Boot Record
zerombr yes
# destroy all existing partitions on all disks
clearpart --all
part swap --size=2048 --ondisk=sda
part swap --size=2048 --ondisk=sdb
part raid.01 --size=2000 --grow --ondisk=sda
part raid.02 --size=2000 --grow --ondisk=sdb
raid / --level=1 --fstype=ext2 --device=md0 raid.01 raid.02
install
Here is the list of modules added to initrd.img in modules/modules.cgz
---------------------------------------------
ls -l 2.4.18-18.7.xBOOT/
total 775
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36764 Dec 20 11:35 3c59x.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 136441 Dec 20 11:36 aic7xxx.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 67563 Dec 20 11:35 e1000.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27212 Dec 20 11:36 eepro100.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3412 Jan 7 14:50 linear.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68225 Dec 20 11:37 lockd.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53264 Jan 7 14:50 lvm-mod.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11756 Jan 7 14:50 multipath.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100398 Dec 20 11:39 nfs.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5672 Dec 20 11:36 raid0.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18016 Dec 20 11:36 raid1.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21980 Jan 7 14:50 raid5.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 83588 Dec 20 11:38 scsi_mod.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17522 Dec 20 11:38 sd_mod.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20703 Dec 20 11:38 sr_mod.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 88552 Dec 18 12:28 sunrpc.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10148 Jan 7 14:50 xor.o
module-info
---------------------------------
Version 0
aic7xxx
scsi
"Adaptec AHA-2740, 28xx, 29xx, 39xx"
3c59x
eth
"3Com 3c590/3c595/3c90x/3cx980"
e1000
eth
"Intel EtherExpress/1000 gigabit"
modules.dep
----------------------------------
aic7xxx: scsi_mod
usb-storage: scsi_mod
lockd: sunrpc
nfs: sunrpc lockd
sd_mod: scsi_mod
raid5: xor
pcitable
----------------------------------
0x9004 0x7893 "aic7xxx" "Adaptec|AIC-789x"
0x9004 0x7894 "aic7xxx" "Adaptec|AIC-789x"
0x9004 0x7895 "aic7xxx" "Adaptec|AHA-2940U/UW / AHA-39xx /AIC-7895"
0x9004 0x7896 "aic7xxx" "Adaptec|AIC-789x"
0x9004 0x7897 "aic7xxx" "Adaptec|AIC-789x"
0x9004 0x8078 "aic7xxx" "Adaptec|AIC-7880U"
0x9004 0x8178 "aic7xxx" "Adaptec|AHA-2940U/UW/D / AIC-7881U"
........
0x8086 0x1000 "e1000" "Intel Corp.|82542 Gigabit Ethernet Controller"
0x8086 0x1001 "e1000" "Intel Corp.|82543GC Gigabit Ethernet Controller"
0x8086 0x1004 "e1000" "Intel Corp.|82543GC Gigabit Ethernet Controller"
0x8086 0x1008 "e1000" "Intel Corp.|82544EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller"
0x8086 0x1009 "e1000" "Intel Corp.|82544EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller"
0x8086 0x100c "e1000" "Intel Corp.|82544GC Gigabit Ethernet Controller"
0x8086 0x100d "e1000" "Intel Corp.|82544GC Gigabit Ethernet Controller"
0x8086 0x100e "e1000" "Intel Corp.|Dell Integrated Gigabit Controller"
