[BlueOnyx:18651] Re: New server, software RAID problem.

[DD]

Thanks Chris and Tom for your responses - we're up and running this morning
:)


DD


> -----Original Message-----
> From: blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-
> bounces at mail.blueonyx.it] On Behalf Of Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet
> Sent: 11 November 2015 21:10
> To: blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it
> Subject: [BlueOnyx:18646] Re: New server, software RAID problem.
> 
> Hi Dick,
> 
> On 11/11/2015 12:27 PM, bqlist wrote:
> > ----8<----
> > "The initial problem was the BlueOnyx installer wanted to only install
> > to /dev/sda. With BIOS raid1 setup, the raid array only showed up as
> > /dev/md127, causing the installer to halt. To bypass this, I think
> > [we] installed it without the BIOS raid, the installation wizard was
> > able to complete successfully without a raid array.
> >
> > I would request the option to manually specify the target installation
> > disk. The first disk on a system is not always /dev/sda, as we have
> > seen on your server today."
> > ---->8----
> >
> > Is there anything I suggest to reinstall with software raid1? Or
> > should I stump up the extra cash for hardware raid?
> 
> Your "onboard" RAID controller appears to FAKERAID rather than a true
> hardware RAID.   Most likely it it's an onboard controller (ie: Built
> into the BIOS).
> 
> So what you need to do is completely disable the RAID from your BIOS, then
> set the disks up as AHCI (or SATA Enhanced) if possible, or just plain old
> SATA if that's all that's left.
> 
> Then you'll need to reinstall BlueOnyx, but specify the "nodmraid"
> argument during the installation so that the installer will ignore the
> FAKERAID partition data that was created by that BIOS controller.
> 
> That will get you where you're going.
> --
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