~ sorry, another HPT370 RAID booting issue ~

primus · Apprentice Joined: 07 Jun 2003 Posts: 230

hey all,

i have looked through some posts, and actually got my box to the point to getting the grub bootloader screen and a "quasi boot process" going, but alas, i am once again dead in the water.

Here is some background:

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I am running an Abit KX7-333R with a Highpoint 370/372 RAID controller. My harddrive setup is as follows:

IDE1 -> master = Maxtor 80GB (running windows)
IDE2 -> master = DVDROM
-> slave = CDRW

IDE3, which is on the raid controlller -> master = WD 80GB
IDE4, which is on the raid controller -> master = WD 80GB

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I installed the newest Gentoo Linux on /dev/ataraid/disc0/
I have 3 partitions:

part1 = /boot (ext3)
part2 = swap (swap)
part3 = / (reiserfs)

so in the /dev/ataraid/disc0/ there are 4 things: disc, part1,part2,part3.

this seemed fine, but when i cdrooted there was no longer a /dev/ataraid ... i dont know if this is suppose to happen, but it didnt seem to affect anything.

i did the install and compiled the kernel.

for the kernel (relevant stuff):

reiserfs was compiled in
ext3 support was compiled in
HPT370 support was compiled in
support for IDE RAID controllers was a module
highpoint 370 software was a module

does this matter, the modules? i dont know, i am doing harware RAID with the onboard hpt raid controller on the motherboard....

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well i finished with all of that, and went to emerge grub and built the conf, which is as follows:

note: in my bios, my boot order is - cdrom, RAID133, HDD0

cyrillic · Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2003 5:09 pm Post subject:

Oh, one more thing...

gentoo-sources doesn't work with some ataraid controllers, try ac-sources instead. (this should take care of "hde: lost interrupt")

edgepak · Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2003 5:11 pm Post subject:

try root=(hd1,2)

Grub found your boot as (hi1,0) meaning that 2 partitions later must be (hd1,2)

I have had the same kernel panic messages, but they definately only mean that the root= is wrong.

To be hones, i'm not certain if grub accepts that notation for the root= ...

as soon as my machine is finished with emerge system i'll check...

Edit: I wish that all questions were as eloquent as yours -- kudos for giving such good information!

primus · Apprentice Joined: 07 Jun 2003 Posts: 230

thanks guys for the replies, ... i just spent so long trying to get it to work, so i may as well give all that i did :) i will try both suggestions.

primus · Apprentice Joined: 07 Jun 2003 Posts: 230

nogo with the root thing, i am trying the ac-sources now, do you think that will fix the kernel panic?

edgepak · Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2003 6:40 pm Post subject:

The kernel panic is coming from the root= setting, and not from something else.

However, éven with the correct root=, the kernel would definately panic if it doesn't have the driver for the raid controller -- it's still not lying when it says that it can't open /root.

It's very possible that with the ac-sources the kernel will suddenly be able to mount the drive and that the problem will be fixed.

If not, maybe do some more research to see if there's some silly module you're missing for the hpt370.

Check a post from taskara in the middle of https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=5628&highlight=hpt370 this page. Are you using the module hptraid or hptide? It says there that without a raid array htpraid won't work.

Here https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=4769&highlight=hpt370 is another slightly less usefull discussion on the topic, but still productive reading.

Here https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=18894&highlight= is a great guide for gentoo raid.

Let us know how this turns out ---- my last windows machine running on a hpt370 is slated for gentoo next weekend, so i would like to be prepared for whatever is coming...

primus · Apprentice Joined: 07 Jun 2003 Posts: 230

well, i am giving the ac-sources a shot, i have all the hpt stuff compiled into the kernel... going to see how it likes it...

one thing about the grub.conf, do you think i should have

primus · Apprentice Joined: 07 Jun 2003 Posts: 230

hehe isnt this just wonderful... went to compile the ac-sources...and:

primus · Apprentice Joined: 07 Jun 2003 Posts: 230

well, i am compiling without sound now...

cyrillic · Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2003 9:10 pm Post subject:

For the "root=" kernel parameter, you can use :

primus · Apprentice Joined: 07 Jun 2003 Posts: 230

thanks, it did work with the ac-sources, but how can i be sure that it is using a raid 0 correctly.... is there a way to check?

the system seems to work though

but if i do

primus · Apprentice Joined: 07 Jun 2003 Posts: 230

kewl, actually i found cyrillic's post:

cyrillic · Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2003 10:38 pm Post subject:

This thread shows how to benchmark your array :
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=47341&highlight=

primus · Apprentice Joined: 07 Jun 2003 Posts: 230

thanks, i got about 65.7 MB/s ... is that a correct number? for 2 WD 80GB 8MB cache 7200 RPM in RAID 0 config?

cyrillic · Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2003 11:32 pm Post subject:

Sounds good to me.

You can also check the individual drives the same way, just use /dev/hde and /dev/hdg instead of /dev/ataraid/disc0/disc

hdparm -tT will also work on the individual drives if you prefer that benchmark.

primus · Apprentice Joined: 07 Jun 2003 Posts: 230

awesome, i really appreciate all of your help cyrillic and edgepack for helping me out. just want to say thanks, and i hope this experience will help others.

`djinn` · n00b Joined: 23 Nov 2002 Posts: 15 Location: /Texas/Dallas

Anyone know why gentoo sources and some ataraid controllers (i.e. hp37*) don't play nicely together? Also, the gaming sources don't like them either. Well, just thought I would ask

irondog · Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 11:18 pm Post subject:

I'm running the 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 kernel and it works (htp370 raid 0).

At the installation process you lost the /dev/ataraid/discX/partY after the chroot
Installing a bootloader on the raid array becomes impossible.

If you do the following BEFORE the chroot you can install your bootloader properly:
#mount -o bind /dev/ /mnt/gentoo/dev

The installation howto contains this information since a few weeks (maybe because of my tips):
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml#doc_chap27

deurk · Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2003 9:31 am Post subject:

I'm a bit lost there...

What should I use as sources if I want my HPT370/372 RAID controller (on an ABIT BE7-Raid motherboard) to be supported?

Gaming?
Gentoo?
AC?