Re: RAID and FC5 Installation Problems
Hassan Dar wrote:
Hi everyone.
I’ve been having endless headaches with the FC5 installation. I’ve
managed to get most of them sorted but I’m now really stumped.
Well I was having the common problem of the install hanging at the X
Server screen with a black background and ‘X’ Cursor. I used the
‘linux nodmraid’ at the boot prompt and it successfully got me to the
GUI. However, I am trying to install on a RAID 0 partition and as you
can see, if I use ‘nodmraid’ I can’t activate my RAID partition for
the installer to see. I’m at a loss for what to do I can’t see any
other option as dmraid would be needed to actually show RAID files but
at the same time I need to get to the GUI Installer!
Here are a few things to note:
Text install DOES NOT WORK It has the same problem as the GUI install,
it works only if I use ‘nodmraid’.
I have tried the ‘linux vesa’ command which is a common fix to the
black screen and x cursor problem. However, If I boot with this
command, when X server starts up my monitor gives a ‘No Signal’ message.
I am installing the x86_64 release of FC5 and I DO have a 64-bit
processor.
All 6 discs of my installation media have been SHA1SUM verified and
are all complete.
I burned the media first as a simulation at the slowest speed possible
on my drive (8x 1,200kb/s) and then I used nero to verify the data.
Passes all tests.
With DMA turned off (with the ide=nodma command) the CD media all pass
the mediacheck test.
I have been trying to do a Hard Drive install but can burn the discs
if this will cause complications.
I have tried running the dmraid –v –ay command as soon as the GUI
appears, but this does not do anything.
I have two RAID 0 Arrays, Array 1 is comprised of two identical 160GB
Seagate SATA drives, Array 2 is comprised of three identical 40GB
Seagate IDE/ATA Drives. I do not wish to install anything on the SATA
RAID array as it is for storage only, I wish to install fedora core on
the IDE/ATA Array. Both of these Arrays work fine under Windows XP
Professional so I know my Arrays are fine.
My RAID is configured by the onboard nForce 4 RAID controller also
known as software or fake RAID.
I have used the ‘dmraid –v –ay’ command and then used ‘ls
/dev/mapper/’ to verify my drives were all there, linux correctly
indentifies them with this command.
I would be very grateful to anyone who could help me, I’ve posted on
fedora forums but no one was able to help me sort it out. I have also
tried the fedora IRC community who also could not help me. Thank you
for your time.
You seem to be experiencing the issue reported in the bug report below.
There seems to be a fix in the comments.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186059