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 Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:35 am Post subject: silo boot raid1 |
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| Code: | 22:53:40^root@livecd:/ > cat /etc/silo.conf
partition = 1
root = /dev/md0
timeout = 10
image = /boot/kernel-2.6.24
label = linux
22:53:52^root@livecd:/ > cat /boot/silo.conf
partition = 1
root = /dev/md0
timeout = 10
image = /boot/kernel-2.6.24
label = linux |
I reboot the machine and silo start up, however it stops right at | Code: | | Remapping the kernel... done. |
Any ideas?
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| Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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Does your /boot partition with silo.conf exist not on the raid array, but on a small partition on the first hard disk?
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lavon etc # fdisk /dev/sda
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 64 heads, 32 sectors, 17272 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes
Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 0 95 97280 83 Linux native
/dev/sda2 u 95 600 517120 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda3 0 17272 17686528 5 Whole disk
/dev/sda4 600 17272 17072128 fd Linux raid autodetect
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lavon etc # cat fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
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# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass>
/dev/md1 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/sda2 none swap sw,pri=1 0 0
/dev/sdb2 none swap sw,pri=1 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 noatime 1 2
openprom /proc/openprom openpromfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
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Question. Can you not have the boot partition on the raid set? I want the boot partition mirrored as well, if you don't and /dev/sda dies, the machine wont survive a reset. Doesn't this kind of default part of the whole purpose?
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| Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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I actually figured it out last night. Works great now!
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| i-right-i wrote: | | I want the boot partition mirrored as well, if you don't and /dev/sda dies, the machine wont survive a reset. Doesn't this kind of default part of the whole purpose? |
It has been my understanding that /boot could not reside on the raid volume, but feel free to correct me. Boot doesn't change often. Copy it to /dev/sdb whenever it does and there's your backup. Boot doesn't have to be mounted at startup in your fstab. |
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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/boot can be on a raid volume, however not (yet?) on the sparc platform. I have done it before on the x86 and amd64 platform.
Did you get the framebuffer working? I can't get it to work on my SunBlade 100.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:42 am Post subject: |
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| Cr0t wrote: | /boot can be on a raid volume, however not (yet?) on the sparc platform. I have done it before on the x86 and amd64 platform.
Did you get the framebuffer working? I can't get it to work on my SunBlade 100. |
I got even the framebuffer to work!
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| starrbuck wrote: | | i-right-i wrote: | | I want the boot partition mirrored as well, if you don't and /dev/sda dies, the machine wont survive a reset. Doesn't this kind of default part of the whole purpose? |
It has been my understanding that /boot could not reside on the raid volume, but feel free to correct me. Boot doesn't change often. Copy it to /dev/sdb whenever it does and there's your backup. Boot doesn't have to be mounted at startup in your fstab. |
Thats what I was afraid of. It just means that I would need to rebuild the whole system due to a partition schema change. And a Netra T-105 is real sloooooowwwwww.
Bummer!
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| Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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You could also just make a backup of your OS onto... well what ever.
Fix the filesystem issue and then move it back over.
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I am seeing all sorts of conflicting information on this whole subject all over the fourms. I just tryed the fix by not having boot in the raidset, and it is still not booting. I am getting the infamous "Memory not alligned error" Do you mind sharing what your /etc/fstab and /etc/silo.conf look like?
I am seeing other threads where people on sparc have boot in the raidset, and it is booting fine, or so they say. So this is confusing me as to what is right and whats not.
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| Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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/etc/fstab | Code: | /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noatime 1 2
/dev/md0 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/hda4 /var ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom audo noauto,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0 |
/boot/silo.conf | Code: | partition = 1
root = /dev/md0
timeout = 10
append="video=atyfb:1024x768@60"
image = /boot/kernel-new
label = Gentoo |
After I finally figured out my raid/boot issue my system stopped with a weird message. I am unable to recall what the error msg was, however after some research I found out it was the ATI video card that causes the problem.
Anyway... I even got the atyfb stuff to work even tough it says it's broken in the kernel.
Are you interested in my .config file?
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| Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Cr0t wrote: | | /boot can be on a raid volume, however not (yet?) on the sparc platform. I have done it before on the x86 and amd64 platform. |
Well, yes, we are in the Sparc sub-forum, so I didn't specify any information on other platforms (even though I have built several Gentoo installations both on Sparc and x86). |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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| i-right-i wrote: | | I am seeing all sorts of conflicting information on this whole subject all over the fourms. I just tryed the fix by not having boot in the raidset, and it is still not booting. I am getting the infamous "Memory not alligned error" Do you mind sharing what your /etc/fstab and /etc/silo.conf look like? |
My fstab is posted above.
Here is my /boot/silo.conf:
| Code: | timeout = 100
partition = 1
default = linux-2.6.24-r4
root = /dev/md1
image = /kernel-2.6.24-r4
label = linux-2.6.24-r4
image = /kernel-2.6.24-r3
label = linux-2.6.24-r3
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| i-right-i wrote: | | I am seeing other threads where people on sparc have boot in the raidset, and it is booting fine, or so they say. So this is confusing me as to what is right and whats not. |
It seems like I remember that /boot can reside on raid-1 but not raid-0, but in a quick Google search I am unable to find any supporting documentation. I think generally you are just asking for trouble and more complications if you put /boot in a raid array, but maybe that's just me. 
BTW, you could simply have a problem with your kernel causing the Memory Address Not Aligned error. Have you ever successfully booted with that kernel? If you haven't, you have no way of knowing if it's a good kernel or not. |
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I have been able to boot from this kernel before. Basically, I have a master disk that I keep updated. When I need to deploy another server, I dup this disk, and put the copy into the new server. From this point I convert it to a raid array.
This is the first time I am doing this process for this particular chassis. It also happens to be the first sparc system needing raid. I am very familiar with Gentoo on sparc, just not raid on sparc.
Now, after I completed the first step in migrating, the system did boot from /dev/md0 (the root partition) in fact everything was on md0. I booted it from /dev/md0 on the /dev/sdb disk in a degraded state. I then brought in /dev/sda and watched it rebuild. I went to finalized the system, put the correct IP and /etc/hosts file on. Upon reboot I was dead with the error i listed above. Actually, now that I think about it, I think I know what went wrong. Upon the first reboot, it actually used the boot block from /dev/sda. When I brought this drive back into the array, it copied the contents from /dev/sdb to /dev/sda. The proceedue does not account for this being silo and not grub so silo.conf would of gotten over written. Maybe thats what happened.
I have tried so many things to get it working since then, I fear I may just have to stat over again. I am running raid1 and not raid0. I was using the Gentoo WIKI for migrating to raid. It is written for x86, but it should be prety close to sparc.
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I could not get this to work ever. I gave up on getting this to work and for this servers function, I moved it to a x86 box. Works great there. I hated to do it, because I have tons of sparc hardware and very little x86 stuff, but I didn't have a choice.
Sucks for sure.
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I've put a silo-1.4.13a_pre20070930_p2 ebuild in the tree, according to Debian, it should read the config from a RAID1, try it and let me know  |
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You can boot from a raid partition on Sparc. Just tell Silo What the raid partition consists of:
append = "md1,/dev/sda1,/dev/sdb1"
Only never let a partition that is part of raid start on 0. It will overwrite Silo.
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