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11-11-2004 04:46 AM
11-11-2004 04:46 AM
New controller - won't boot!
I've got a SLES8 server that we build using a generic ghost image (we then change the hostname and IP Address). Normally this is fine, and we've built hundreds of DL380's with this, however:
We're trying to build a really old DL360G1, which has the Integrated Smart Array, not the 5i card, this uses the cpqarray driver, and not the cciss one.
So when you boot it fails. I've booted into the box using a rescue CD, modified the /etc/fstab to point to the correct locations on /dev/ida/blah blah, and I've also successfully modified the /boot/grub/menu.lst file.
I then ran a mkinitrd, but this kept picking up the cciss driver, so I ran mkinitrd -m "cpqarray +other default options" and this told me it installed the cpqarray driver.
However, when I boot, the cciss driver is still being used and it's not finding the root filesystem. Is there anything I need to do after mkinitrd to install the image?
Or am I missing something???
Answers on a post-card, easy 10 points for the first answer posted! (bearing in mind I'm in the UK so won't assign until tomorrow!!)
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11-11-2004 09:11 AM
11-11-2004 09:11 AM
Re: New controller - won't boot!
(As a clean-up thing, you might want to modify /etc/modules.conf, and change the 'cciss' references to 'cpqarray').
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11-11-2004 01:57 PM
11-11-2004 01:57 PM
Re: New controller - won't boot!
To get this to work right I suggest you first get the bootable configuration cd for this server from the compaq/hp website.
Then boot, prepare the disk array and do a clean installation of Suse8
Imaging just doesn't work unless the hardware is almost the same. HP's Ignite product allows for some adjustment but it doesn't run on Linux.
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11-13-2004 06:17 PM
11-13-2004 06:17 PM
Re: New controller - won't boot!
I suggest you re-check you initrd.img - does it include cpqarray?
The other way is using Mondo/Mindi http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ for imaging - in many cases it takes such things [different HW] automatically.
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11-17-2004 10:24 PM
11-17-2004 10:24 PM
Re: New controller - won't boot!
do you maybe need to pass "acpi=oldboot" in the kernel params before booting??
HTH
regards
Matt
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11-17-2004 10:38 PM
11-17-2004 10:38 PM
Re: New controller - won't boot!
Mondo looks good from a DR perspective, I might have to look into this!
Reading from the replies here, ignoring that I'm using a Ghost image, let's assume that I've just bought myself a nice new controller card for my system, are you saying that to get it to work, I'd have to re-build my box!?!?!
That's *CRAZY*!!!
Mike
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11-17-2004 11:12 PM
11-17-2004 11:12 PM
Re: New controller - won't boot!
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