Question about linux and AMD based chipsets/onboard raid
Stephen
cryptworks at gmail.com
Sun Oct 21 20:20:10 MST 2012
well it still stalls a bit, but it booted when i got home.not sure
what thats all about but ill take it.
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
> 0ing the drive was not a bad thing. When trying to mount it via rawdisk in
> virtualbox i was getting some odd errors and then i had some directories
> populate and it got strange from there. It also eliminated some errors so
> something was lingering someplace.
>
> Will know more about the splash screen when i get home. Thanks for the tip!
>
> On Oct 21, 2012 7:28 PM, "Brian Cluff" <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:
>>
>> Aarrrg, sorry I had to 0 the whole drive without any payoff, I really
>> thought that would yield results.
>>
>> As for your current problem, at the grub prompt, press e and edit the boot
>> line, delete the words quiet and splash and then press CTRL+x to boot.
>> That should allow you to see all the boot process in all it's glory
>> including the line that it is getting stuck on.
>>
>> With any luck it's actually getting hung up on the splash screen itself
>> and will just boot. Then all you'll have to do is remove those options from
>> the /etc/default/grub file and then update-grub.
>>
>> If not, you should at least have a better idea of what to look for now.
>>
>> Brian Cluff
>>
>> On 10/21/2012 02:25 PM, Stephen wrote:
>>>
>>> So after 0ing my drive, removing all other drives and still gettign no
>>> results i gave up on 12.04 install media. also having a failure wiht
>>> dist-upgradeing from 10.04 once it went to 12.04 i tried a 11.04
>>> server install media. dist upgrade it to current and was still able to
>>> boot. sheesh do not try this hardware combination. it has officially
>>> earned PITA status.
>>>
>>> new hiccup. I cannot get it to boot smoothly without intervention. if
>>> i let it boot (still entirely on its own drive) it gets out of grub
>>> and sits at a black screen. if i choose recovery then normal boot its
>>> fine. even after turning on lightDM. fun thing is i am not sure what i
>>> would be looking for on this. suggestions would be appreciated
>>> certainly.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Funny thing is 10.10, 11.4, and 11.10 were fine with the array's in
>>>> place
>>>> once 12.4 made the rounds it fell over. If i knew more about grub and
>>>> udev i
>>>> could probably bring it back up.
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 18, 2012 7:28 PM, "Brian Cluff" <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmmmm, that should have been good enough, but I guess they could have
>>>>> put
>>>>> it in the middle. It's not unheard of.
>>>>>
>>>>> Like I said, something is triggering that device mapper on your drive,
>>>>> so
>>>>> there has to be something on the drive that it likes.
>>>>>
>>>>> Brian Cluff
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/18/2012 07:04 PM, Stephen wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Generally i run the quick zero which is the first and last 300mb i
>>>>>> hiess
>>>>>> the next step is finding a home for the data and the 10+ hours to zero
>>>>>> the long way.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Oct 18, 2012 6:45 PM, "Brian Cluff" <brian at snaptek.com
>>>>>> <mailto:brian at snaptek.com>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Did you zero the drive all the way to the end, or just the first
>>>>>> part. Also maybe you zeroed the partition and not the drive? Many
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> the raid superblocks are at the very end of the drive, and it
>>>>>> would
>>>>>> still be catching them if you haven't done the whole thing.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I really think this is whats happening since the Device Mapper is
>>>>>> trying to grab hold of it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Brian Cluff
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 10/18/2012 12:50 PM, Stephen wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> well 4 of the 6 drives involved are actively part of a raid.
>>>>>> the one
>>>>>> i am using for Linux was already 0ed for that very reason, i
>>>>>> do
>>>>>> still
>>>>>> have a usb HDD still attached so i will try disconnecting
>>>>>> that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> odd thing is i was able to boot a 10.10x64 no issue and
>>>>>> installed
>>>>>> there and have been doing dist-upgrades to current. i will
>>>>>> take
>>>>>> a 2nd
>>>>>> look but its is really puzzling.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I will certainly have to keep an eye out. I haven't even
>>>>>> figured
>>>>>> out
>>>>>> how i'm going to configure grub yet to get multiple boot set
>>>>>> up.
>>>>>> i may
>>>>>> leave it ghetto and just use bios.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Brian Cluff
>>>>>> <brian at snaptek.com
>>>>>> <mailto:brian at snaptek.com>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The fact that the device mapper is getting involved with
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> drive leads me
>>>>>> to believe that the drive was part of a raid, or at least
>>>>>> configured by your
>>>>>> raid controller at one time and there is now a superblock
>>>>>> on
>>>>>> it that is
>>>>>> messing up everything.
>>>>>> You'll probably need to zero out that superblock before
>>>>>> things will start to
>>>>>> behave correctly.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Brian Cluff
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 10/17/2012 07:42 PM, Stephen wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have an AMD based chiset and i am trying to get
>>>>>> ubuntu
>>>>>> to boot right
>>>>>> now and it is stalling, and i am having trouble
>>>>>> ironing
>>>>>> out what is
>>>>>> going on.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have onbaord raid drives attached to the onboard
>>>>>> raid
>>>>>> chipset
>>>>>> (SB710) however i am not intending to install to
>>>>>> those
>>>>>> drives the
>>>>>> drive i wish to install to is actually a SATA
>>>>>> connected
>>>>>> single drive
>>>>>> but i am having the worst time getting Ubuntu 12.04
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> even finish its
>>>>>> boot cycle. and im not getting allot of feedback.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The errors i am getting are ata_id[336]:
>>>>>> HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed for
>>>>>> '/dev/sdb': Invalid argument
>>>>>> - this is with all Raid disks disconnected and raid
>>>>>> turned off in
>>>>>> bios. just a single SATA HDD
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I get one of the two following errors if i have raid
>>>>>> disks attached
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A similar entry as above comes up or i get
>>>>>> udevd[167] inotify_add_watch(6, /dev/dm-1, 10)
>>>>>> failed:
>>>>>> No Such file or
>>>>>> directory
>>>>>>
>>>>>> the most promising option i have so far is booting
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> nodmraid but
>>>>>> it seems to just hang and go no place after detecting
>>>>>> my
>>>>>> CDrom devices
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is rather perplexing overall.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ideally i would like my 2 onboard raids to be
>>>>>> connected
>>>>>> running
>>>>>> windows and then let linux run amok on my extra sata
>>>>>> hdd
>>>>>> but it either
>>>>>> is really pissed off in a way i cannot figure out or
>>>>>> it
>>>>>> really does
>>>>>> not like that port.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyone have any thoughts?
>>>>>>
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