HP DL140 G2 Redhat boot problem!

[bzr]

Hi HP and unix gurus!
I'm having big trouble with redhat enterprise linux installation on a new HP proliant DL140 G2 server...

What i was doing:
1 Boot off the redhat cd1
2 Use soft raid1 that comes with redhat EL3
3 reboot, then came the big problem!

Any urgent response appreciated!!!
Thanks

[Van den Broeck Tijl]

Can you give some more info about the boot problem ? Where does it stop ? Kernel Panic ? Grub ?

Besides that, I know that the DL140 has some serious performance issues when it comes to software raid. You can check google groups on that, I really wouldn't recommend running soft raid on a DL140 unless there's a fix by now? :/

[Ivan Ferreira]

What did you do? What is the problem?

Did you convert from non-raid to raid?

We need more information. Please post all steps followed.

[bzr]

Thanks for fast reply,

I tried to get rid of raid so i re-installed it with no raid option just on one little partion to test (/dev/hda1 of 12gb), the disk is an ata or sata(?) i think.

When it boots, it hangs on "GRUB loading stage2 .."

And the nothing happens until i switch off the server.

Need your answer asap please!
Kind regards.

[Ivan Ferreira · Accepted solution]

Try booting with the rescue CD and run:

chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub-install /dev/hda

Also, with fdisk, verify that the first partition is the active partition. Post the results of fdisk -l.

[bzr]

Thanks guys!!!
grub-install did solve the pb, now i'll try to use raid if i'm not out of luck :)