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Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 03:11:02 -0500
From: Bret Hughes <bhughes@elevating.com>
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Subject: compaq smart 2 raid and XFS 1.0.1 redhat install problems
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I give up.  I have totally hosed a compaq 3000 machine that was working
perfectly under rh6.2.  fortunately it is not our main production box
but I still need to get this thing up and running.

First I tried an upgrade that appeared to be fine but lilo and I got
confused ( at least I was ) I told the installer to use the MBR and that
is where compaq utilities stuff gets started from.  It was still booting
the 2.2.3-16 kernel.  Very weird.  I putzed with it for too long trying
different iterations of upgrades (both XFS and regular redhat 7.1)
trying to figure out what was happening.  My partner found the deal
about compaq needing the mbr so I did the old dos diskette and fdisk
/mbr.  This let me boot to the right kernel but the system hung right
after the compaq smart 2 initialization and gave the message checking
partitions:
and a reference to using ida/c0d0

I figured I had screwed up the packages so I did an install (not an
upgrade ) to an unused partition and get the same error.  I have worn
out my mouse and me searching the mailing list archives for references
to what might be happening.  I tried various things like linux
devfs=nomount at the lilo prompt. No joy.

Are ther issues with the Compaq smart-2 raid controllers and XFS?  I see
that there is some patching that went on but in reference to it but I
could not tell exactly what the issues are.  do I need to do the CVS
deal and compile my own kernel?  How do I get it onto a machine that I
cannot boot? Please help.  I am fried.

Bret