ATA Raid Problem

jthj · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:58 pm Post subject: ATA Raid Problem

I'm trying to install gentoo on an HP Proliant DL320. I have an onboard ATA 100 Raid controler that uses a serverworks CSB6 chipset. Raid is configured in the bios for the controler. When I boot from the live cd it does not detect my array. It simply detects two drives hda and hdc. However if I compile my kernel with the serverworks driver, which is not available as a module, it will detect ide0 and hda becomes my cdrom. So it is apparent to me that the live cd does not have the correct driver for me to build my system using the array. How can I get this driver onto the live CD so that I can build my system using the array as apposed to putting it on hda and not getting raid. Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.
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Crimson Rider · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 4:00 pm Post subject:

This might or might not help you, but you have to instruct the kernel on livecd to load the ataraid modules.

Try starting the kernel with the following option

gentoo doataraid

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jthj · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 7:08 pm Post subject:

Crimson Rider · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 8:20 am Post subject:

I don't have much experience with grub, I know that in LILO you can just give the entire device name and it works.

Also make sure to read the part of the install doc that deals with ATARAID, it explains how to rebind /dev wich you will need to do if you want to boot ATARAID.
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jthj · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 8:23 pm Post subject:

I having a hard time finding any mention of ATARAID in the install documentation. Is this information in a seperate document?
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jthj · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 9:25 pm Post subject:

Ok I tried booting with the gentoo doataraid option and I still do not have ataraid in /dev just /dev/hda and /dev/hdc. I also tride doing a modprobe ataraid. I contacted HP they told me this is hardware raid. And that the module used in red hat, which they support, is megaide.o . I have experienced the same thing in Red Hat. I get /dev/hda /dev/hdc no ataraid. I've tried both the raid 0 and raid 1 config in the bios of the server. I can't really get much help from HP though since they don't support Gentoo and I don't want to use Red Hat. Again thanks for your help.
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Crimson Rider · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 10:50 pm Post subject:

Lemme see what I can come up with

Gentoo docs (and i do quote )

jthj · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 12:06 am Post subject:

The chip is the Broadcom Serverworks CSB6. It supports Raid 0, 1, and 1+0. According to HP it is hardware raid. The serverworks CSB6 is listed in the kernel in the IDE section however there is no mention of raid..... I think I'm gona have to call HP tech support again.
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Crimson Rider · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 8:23 am Post subject:

Have you tried grep searching the entire kernel doc dir ?
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jthj · Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 5:46 pm Post subject:

jthj · Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 6:35 am Post subject:

I called HP again and this time got someone who knew what they are talking about. He hooked me up with the driver for my card, module for RH unfortuneately. So I loaded RH 9.0, Red Hat has apt available now though so maybe it won't be that bad..... It's still not gentoo though :-(

. I'm gona have to see if I can experiment with shoehorning gentoo on using red hats kernel....... But I really need to get these servers up and running. Anyway thanks for all the help.
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wahuu · n00b Joined: 21 Apr 2002 Posts: 14 Location: Austria

I have contacted LSI and they sent me a driver for the Raidcontroller. http://pub.datux.nl/linux/drivers/proliant/megaide-shimdriver-readme.txt

The driver is partially closed-source but I did not have any problems compiling it with gentoo-2.4.22-r7. It even loads and works successfully! The only problem left is the grub configuration:
creating root device
Mounting root filesystem
mount: error 6 mounting ext3
pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
Freeing unused kernel memory: 232k freed
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel

Greetings,
Dom

jthj · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 4:33 pm Post subject:

What did you do to get around the kernel panic?
Right now I'm using Red Hat 9.0 on those boxes. I installed apt-get so redhat is liveable but I'd much prefer to be using gentoo. Although at this point it would be a setback to reload them :-(

so I'm probably going to have to stick with redhat.
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wahuu · n00b Joined: 21 Apr 2002 Posts: 14 Location: Austria

unfortunately i was not able to solve the problem.

even without the megaide module in the initial ramdisk the following message appears: failed in exec of /bin/insmod

any help on this issue is welcome! thanks, dom.

jthj · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2004 4:50 pm Post subject: Re: kernel panic

batlogg · Retired Dev Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: 2

after wahuu spent some more hours on the megaide thing (tried mkinitrd, kernel-module foo, kernel-option bar,...
finally brad_mssw from #gentoo-dev proposed the following:

tomalok · n00b Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 30

I've got a Proliant DL320 that I've been fighting with for about a week now.

I've compiled a megaide.o vs. the 2004.0 LiveCD kernel's config, loaded that, and installed Gentoo on the associated /dev/sda.

The next tricky part was to get GRUB set up, as it couldn't see /dev/sda -- nor could it see /dev/hda or /dev/hdc, because the megaide kernel module makes it go away. Was able to get the boot sector set up from a GRUB floppy on hda and hdc.

Then, for some reason, megaide.o wasn't a part of the initrd that genkernel was creating. I hacked genkernel to unpack the megaide source, compile, install, and re-run depmod after the kernel and modules had been compiled and installed. Finally, I had megaide.o in the initrd.

But, to my dismay, the initrd isn't loading the module. I'm getting something along the lines of...

mcguire_mr2 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Nov 2003 Posts: 82

Don't know if this will help, but...

I just successfully installed Gentoo 2004.1 on DL320. At first I was having the same probs that ya'll were. I used gentoo-dev-sources-2.4.7-r5. I compiled in support for ServerWorks stuff, but this didn't seem to work. I decided to look at the LiveCD bootup output to determine which modules it was loading for the hard drive. It was loading the ServerWorks stuff, too, but I noticed that just before this it was loading CMD649. Looking a bit further, it appears that on mine it's using the CMD649 for the hard drives, and the ServerWorks for the CD. Don't know why.

So, in menuconfig, under Device Drivers->ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support, I made sure the following were built in:
-- CMD64{3|6|8|9}
-- ServerWorks OSB4/CSB5/CSB6 chipsets support

Now gentoo boots just fine!

I'd like to know if this works for anyone else.

later,
mack

Moto · n00b Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 4

apyles · n00b Joined: 27 Sep 2004 Posts: 1

I just configured an HP proliant dl320 to work with Gentoo 2000.1

Here is how I did it.
1.) my server didn't come with floppy or cdrom, so I setup a PXE boot environmnet on my other PC.

a.) to setup PXE, you can use grub to do this. Make sure that you compile a static version of grub in your pxe build environment. And make sure you use grub.0.95

ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-0.95.tar.gz

then grab the patches below at:

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=9408

( you really only need patch 2)

#tar -xvzf grub-0.95.tar.gz; cd grub-0.95
#cat ../grub-0.95-diskless-patch-2.patch | patch -p1
#./configure --enable-diskless --enable-tg3
#make

this will create the pxeboot that will the support the broadcom 1000.
for further instructions on how to configure pxeboot, look at this link.

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=54293&highlight=pxe+boot

next you need to get a version of megaide shim driver ( contact lsi logic for latest version ). However there is a version available at :

http://pub.datux.nl/linux/drivers/proliant/megaide-shimdriver-readme.txt

You can then build your kernel and follow the instructions on how to build this as a module. Once you have the module built, you need to add this to your initrd. This is done by editing /usr/share/genkernel/x86/module

make sure you change the first line to:
MODULES_SCSI="megaide sd_mod"

NOTE: note that I added megaide and sd_mod. It turns out that when megaide is loaded it also loads this module if you don't have it compiled in. Also scsi_mod is also required, so either compile it in our add it to the list.

this is assuming that you are using genkernel with the default build. in addition make sure that you add support for the tg3 broadcom driver.

This should allow you to boot off pxeboot at this point. Once you have done this make sure that megaide and sd_mod modules are loaded and you can proceed with the install.

If anyone finds this useful let me know, as it took me a while to finally get all of this information together.

andy

NiceGuy · Guru Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 451 Location: Canada

Hello everyone,

I have just attempted to install Gentoo on a Hewlet Packard Proliant DL320 G5 Server and after the installation the system attempts to boot, but goes not further than

TwinGears · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 5:29 pm Post subject:

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/linux/dl320g5-drivers-cert.html
I does appear so - you may want to look back into the instructions, look over mounting, don't forget /dev and /proc. I would also look over /proc/cpuinfo and lspci -v just to make sure you understand what is needed in your kernel.
After you get the hang of it you will think nothing of it.
Good luck.

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NathanZachary · Moderator Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 2605

If it just hangs there, it might be getting hung up on some aspect of the kernel. I would try passing the no frame buffer parameter to the kernel before anything else. You do that by typing this at the boot prompt:

nixnut · Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:30 pm Post subject:

merged above three posts here.
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NiceGuy · Guru Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Posts: 451 Location: Canada

Hello,

I am not sure how to translate the information that lspci provides ... into understanding which module to configure/load/build.
For example: here is the lspci output for my HP DL320 G5 system: