xboxboy Posted November 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2008 Quick update guys. I've had enough of the messing around trying to boot off the raid array, so I purchased another hard disk, sata, to run off the marvell controller as a boot disk and have the raid array as purely data.... Great idea in theory, not so great in practice...still getting windows BSOD upon reboot.... Why is this so hard????? Im sure when its figured it will be great, but I'm going mental here. lol.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted November 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2008 Tried to install mandy 2008.1, with the raid drives disconnected. Cannot load X now...I never got mandy to boot before. It boots, but no x windows. My motherboard doesn't have on board video, so I'm guessing I have a video glitch. It is a nvidia Asus EN9400GT silent. Should have been fine for what I want to do. What am I missing here??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted November 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2008 Ran XFdrake from command line, have now got x up and running. Used the nv driver. Am attempting to add nvidia driver... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted November 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2008 Still having dramas here. Here is the a link to the mother board manual if some one would like to help. http://support.asus.com/download/download....model=P5Q%20PRO I've searched plenty of forums out there, and this seems to cause lots of issues for people. I now have 3 hard drives. One 500gb that I would like to boot from, xp and mandy, plus trial distros. 2 640 gb drives that I want to set in RAID1 through the ICH10R controller....The silicon image controller needs windows to run, so is no good for linux as well.... I almost think I've got a setting in BIOS somewhere that I'm just not setting right.. It's definately a driver issue, so whether I need to turn off the silicon image controller and all accessories on the board and start from scratch, or I just genuinely have a hardware glitch I don't really know. Any help most apreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted November 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2008 Well its up and running, and didn't it take some doing/ From looking all over the web lots and lots of people are having trouble. But luckily I found a solution on the Asus forums. Turn raid off in BIOS. Hook a hard drive to the E_SATA1 port, and do a windows install.....Now this is not supported, but it works. So I had a working SP3 on E_SATA1. Shutdown pc, turn raid on in BIOS and reboot. Windows loaded and found new hardware, wants to install driver, so install the raid driver. Shutdown pc. Added the two raid drives, rebooted, enter the intel matrix Rom, set the array up and reboot. Enter Bios to ensure booting of E_SATA1 hard disk still. Reboot. Windows is up and running with a raid1 data array. I shutdown and moved the boot drive from E_SATA1, back onto the intel ich10r controller, entered bios, set the boot disk. Reboot pc. All is working. The driver I gave to windows when it wanted the raid driver was the same floppy I had been f6 adding to install, but it would just not work...... So know I got windows and mandy on a boot drive, with plenty of room for messing with other distros. And two hard drives in raid1, being purely data drives. I'm going to move my docs off the windows partition and onto the data raid array, and the same with the /home folder. Exactly what I wanted. Yay....It only took nearly 1 month, obviously intel, marvell, ASUS or MS have a driver glitch somewhere, hopefully I wont need to go through this again, or updated drivers will behave better. Now I just gotta get X windows up on mandy, I get dropped to a text login, and XFdrake doesn't sort it out....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted December 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 Ok so I now have 2008.1 up and running, with the Nvidia driver loaded as well. The Lan is running perfectly. Below are screen shots of the hard disk manager. How can I make it so I can access my raid array (mapper/isw_bebgibagai_cleggett08)? If possible I would like to have that in storage media. Can anyone advise me what device sdd is??? I dont know where this comes from! And sdc has a 49gb windows partition, 8gb swap and 49gb of mandy install. Thanks all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted December 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 Is it simply a matter of mounting this drive somehow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted December 9, 2008 Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 I've never seen raid arrays get configured under /dev/mapper. That's normally used for lvm volumes, and they aren't raid unless the lvm was set up inside the raid array. What we could do with is some more info from the console: fdisk -l lvs vgs cat /proc/mdstat cat /etc/mdadm.conf cat /etc/fstab and post results here for all those commands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted December 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 [root@localhost matthew]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xf6ce6f14 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 77825 625129281 7 HPFS/NTFS Disk /dev/sdb: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xf6ce6f14 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 77825 625129281 7 HPFS/NTFS Disk /dev/sdc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xc9fdc9fd Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 * 1 6457 51865821 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sdc2 6458 13886 59673442+ 5 Extended /dev/sdc5 6458 7476 8185086 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdc6 7477 13886 51488293+ 83 Linux Disk /dev/dm-0: 640.1 GB, 640132714496 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xf6ce6f14 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/dm-0p1 * 1 77825 625129281 7 HPFS/NTFS Disk /dev/dm-1: 640.1 GB, 640132383744 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77824 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x69205244 This doesn't look like a partition table Probably you selected the wrong device. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/dm-1p1 ? 13578 119522 850995205 72 Unknown Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/dm-1p2 ? 45382 79243 271987362 74 Unknown Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/dm-1p3 ? 10499 10499 0 65 Novell Netware 386 Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/dm-1p4 167628 167631 25817+ 0 Empty Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. Partition table entries are not in disk order [root@localhost matthew]# [root@localhost matthew]# 1vs bash: 1vs: command not found [root@localhost matthew]# vgs bash: vgs: command not found [root@localhost matthew]# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : unused devices: <none> [root@localhost matthew]# [root@localhost matthew]# cat /etc/mdadm.conf cat: /etc/mdadm.conf: No such file or directory [root@localhost matthew]# cat /etc/fstab # Entry for /dev/sdc6 : UUID=8d98e80f-5ff9-4d31-8f99-22eacfead24e / ext3 relatime 1 1 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,exec,flush 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sdc1 : UUID=867893F17893DDED /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sdc5 : UUID=aa3e9216-97b8-4828-a615-a6c962afe02b swap swap defaults 0 0 [root@localhost matthew]# Thanks for your help Ian. Some of those commands didn't appear to be applicable to mine install???? Im running 2008.1, is the NTFS read/write support safe to use for data storage? or am I better installing the ext3 driver for windows? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted December 9, 2008 Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 Yeah, it's not using mdadm but dmraid by the looks of things which is why they didn't work. Also the LVM commands lvs/vgs didn't work because LVM isn't being used as I thought. The devicemapper is probably being used for dmraid, which I've not used so that's why I assumed LVM. However, there's no /dev/sdd anyway, only three hard disks sda, sdb and sdc. sdd was probably when you had a usb stick attached or something, since the size suggests 1GB. At least from the screenshot you showed in a previous post. What I don't understand is what you mean by accessing your array in media, since the system is mounted, and it's working fine. This provides your whole file structure from / and will never be under /media. You will find this under Computers in Gnome, and you can access the partitions from there or going into the main partition to see the full structure as shown under /. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted December 9, 2008 Report Share Posted December 9, 2008 Disk /dev/dm-0: 640.1 GB, 640132714496 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0xf6ce6f14 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/dm-0p1 * 1 77825 625129281 7 HPFS/NTFS Disk /dev/dm-1: 640.1 GB, 640132383744 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77824 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x69205244 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/dm-1p1 ? 13578 119522 850995205 72 Unknown /dev/dm-1p2 ? 45382 79243 271987362 74 Unknown /dev/dm-1p3 ? 10499 10499 0 65 Novell Netware 386 /dev/dm-1p4 167628 167631 25817+ 0 Empty you want to be creating mount points for each of the partitions that are a part of the array. I don't know what's in /dev/mapper, but provide output of: ls -l /dev/mapper/ so that we can see. However, even with that, I expect that /dev/dm-0 and /dev/dm-1 are the disks that are a part of the array, and as such you should be addressing these in your /etc/fstab so that they're automatically mounted at boot. As you see from the info I copied from your post, under each dm-0 and dm-1 disks, are partitions which you need to use to mount in /etc/fstab. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted December 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 Thanks once again Ian. [matthew@localhost ~]$ ls -l /dev/mapper/ total 0 crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 62 2008-12-11 06:38 control brw------- 1 root root 252, 0 2008-12-11 06:38 isw_bebgibagai_Cleggett08 brw------- 1 root root 252, 1 2008-12-11 06:38 isw_bebgibagai_Cleggett08p1 [matthew@localhost ~]$ Yes, both of those are 640gb which are used in the array.....I have 2 X 640gb running in raid1 (mirror) Thanks, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted December 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 I forgot to mention, there should be no partition on the array, as I am yet to put data on it. If there are partitions already there (I cant understand why dm1 has partitions) they may be fragments from when I tried booting off the array. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted December 11, 2008 Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 Well, one looks like it has an NTFS partition, and the other has some unknown and a Novell NetWare partition. So something either was on the disks before and got picked up. Either way, you can delete these and start again if there is no data there. So you are saying that the 2 x 640GB disks are part of the array? The two above are not two different arrays of 640GB? If so, that means they are two 640GB disks separate from the array, and so you'd be addressing them via the /dev/mapper/isw_bebgibagai_Cleggett08 for the hard disk, and the one with p1 on the end is the one single partition created. At a guess..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted December 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2008 Yes Ian you're correct. I have three actual physical drives: 1X500gb boot disk 2X640gb drives connected through the intel ich10r controller in raid 1 formation. Im still confused. In windows I have the array as drive d. One identity for the array. Windows doesn't see two disks. (I can view the separate disks through the intel software) Am I able to have one identity for the array, where if I save a file to the array, the ich10r controller takes care of the duplication across the two drives? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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