I have been trying to install openSuSE 12.2 on a out-of-the-box hp ProLiant ML310 G8 v2 server. The machine is equipped with two 1TB hard drives, so I thought that this would make a great setup for a RAID-1 installation.
The server has a Dynamic Smart Array B210i controller which unfortunately is not recognized by oS 12.2. I created a logical drive but the oS installer still sees two distinct drives, /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.
Next, I removed the logical drive and performed an installation using the linux RAID system. At my first attempt, I had the following setup:
/dev/md0 consisting of /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 mounted as /
/dev/md1 consisting of /dev/sda3 and /dev/sdb3 mounted as /home
The installation completed without any incident but after the restart the server could not boot. It behaved as if it there were no bootable hard drives. However, using eg. a Knoppix live DVD I could see, using mdadm commands, that the partitions were actually there and that they were members of the correct md devices.
For my second attempt, I created the following partition setup:
/dev/md0 consisting of /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 mounted as /boot
/dev/md1 consisting of /dev/sda3 and /dev/sdb3 mounted as /
/dev/md2 consisting of /dev/sda4 and /dev/sdb4 mounted as /home
With this setup I had exactly the same results as with the previous one, a non-bootable server.
I want to use this server with a RAID disk setup. I don't necessarily want to make use of the B120i as a RAID device but I would at least like to be able to setup this machine using the normal linux RAID mechanism and also be able to boot from any of the hard drives in case of a disk failure. I also would not like to move away from oS 12.2 as it is the version deployed on other of our servers as well (with non-RAID configurations) and it is a tried and tested version.
Is there anything else that I should do so that I can get to my desired result? Has anyone else used this server and had success? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
The server has a Dynamic Smart Array B210i controller which unfortunately is not recognized by oS 12.2. I created a logical drive but the oS installer still sees two distinct drives, /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.
Next, I removed the logical drive and performed an installation using the linux RAID system. At my first attempt, I had the following setup:
/dev/md0 consisting of /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 mounted as /
/dev/md1 consisting of /dev/sda3 and /dev/sdb3 mounted as /home
The installation completed without any incident but after the restart the server could not boot. It behaved as if it there were no bootable hard drives. However, using eg. a Knoppix live DVD I could see, using mdadm commands, that the partitions were actually there and that they were members of the correct md devices.
For my second attempt, I created the following partition setup:
/dev/md0 consisting of /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 mounted as /boot
/dev/md1 consisting of /dev/sda3 and /dev/sdb3 mounted as /
/dev/md2 consisting of /dev/sda4 and /dev/sdb4 mounted as /home
With this setup I had exactly the same results as with the previous one, a non-bootable server.
I want to use this server with a RAID disk setup. I don't necessarily want to make use of the B120i as a RAID device but I would at least like to be able to setup this machine using the normal linux RAID mechanism and also be able to boot from any of the hard drives in case of a disk failure. I also would not like to move away from oS 12.2 as it is the version deployed on other of our servers as well (with non-RAID configurations) and it is a tried and tested version.
Is there anything else that I should do so that I can get to my desired result? Has anyone else used this server and had success? Any help will be greatly appreciated.