Subject: [compaqandlinux] Unknown partition table on smart array controller
rborn1@rochester.rr.com
Date: Sat Jun 17 09:14:23 2000
Richard, Just a followup to let you know your advice worked about cpqarray on this Proliant 2k. I cheated though, I had an extra 2 gig drive here and plugged it into the embedded scsi controller and installed on it. Everything installed fine, and now boots ok I then decided to recompile the kernel to include the cpqarray as static and that went OK (after some confusion on as86, (did you know it's not in bin86 anymore, redhat changed the name to dev86?). I now let the machine boot up and run fdisk on /dev/ida/c0d0 and make a partition. I now write the table and exit, then run mkfs on that partition (c0dop1), I can now mount the partition and write to it, read from it, everything is good, until I reboot, when I reboot I still get the message "Unknown partition table" and am no longer able to mount that partition. No the real weird part, if I run fdisk on the array again, make no changes and write and exit again, I can mount the disk again.... I found in the mailing list archives a similar scenario, but didn't find an answer. Thanks for your help and if you have any more suggestions let me know. I am going to try and copy this to the list and see if anyone else has fixed this. Rick --- "Black, Richard" <Richard.Black@COMPAQ.com> wrote: > Here's the email I spoke of which describes all that > I have done so far. It > needs some clean up, but it should explain how all > should go. I'm up to the > point where I made the boot floppy during install, > copied a new kernel to > the floppy (I went to another RH6.2 system, created > a new kernel with > cpqarray built in statically), booted from that > floppy (giving parameters on > boot up of linux smart2=0x6000 mem=96M), system > comes up, complains about > unresolved symbols and unable to get major number > for the array controller, > system comes all the way up. I am now in the > process of building a new > kernel on the PL1500 system and will have the server > boot by itself w/ no > floppy next. > > Sincerely, > Richard Black --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: compaqandlinux-unsubscribe@cpqlin.van-dijk.net For additional commands, e-mail: compaqandlinux-help@cpqlin.van-dijk.net
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