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!
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@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@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@snaptek.com
<mailto:brian@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@snaptek.com
<mailto:brian@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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