Redhat ES3 Update 6 and DL360

[Paul Clayton_1]

I have a DL360 G3 with the Smart Array 5i controller. Redhat ES3 UPD6 loads fine, but on the exit and reboot time, the server fails at the GRUB > prompt.
I installed the latest firmware, and now the server hangs in the install. Any recomnedation.s

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Paul,

How is the DL360 configured? Is it providing RAID? If so, what type.

I've seen that message often with RH 4 systems that use software RAID. There is a bug in the anaconda installer that doesn't correctly deal with software raid.

I'm providing a procedure for fixing this that might work if you are using software RAID.

You may have skipped the disk preparation step with the DL360. That involves booting of a CD that comes with the server (also downloadable).

You boot that cd, set up storage and then boot off RH cd.

Procedure:

>> 1. boot redhat cd 1
>> 2. enter "linux rescue" at isolinux prompt
>> 3. no networking, mount drives
>> 4. at shell prompt, type "grub"
>> 5. find /grub/stage1
>> 6. root (hd0,0)
>> 7. setup (hd0)
>> 8. root (hd1,0)
>> 9. root (hd1)
>> 10. klingon deathgrip

The Klingon death grip is ctrl-alt-del

SEP

SEP

[Paul Clayton_1]

We have a mirror set up with two 36Gb drives.

I looked at the grub config and the device.map, and the device map had hd(1,..) and the grub.conf mapped to HD(1...)
I am now about to try the cpq driver diskkette first and see if that works. Previously we had Fedora Core 1 on the server.

[Paul Clayton_1]

The server requirted the CPQ driver diskette to be loaded. This required booting the Linux CD and then running "linux dd".
The necessary prompts came up for the diskette and the I was able to load and get a bootable server.