Re: 3ware raid - custom rescue floppy?

[aphro@portal.aphroland.org]

i thought that the debian rescue disk didnt include support
course i havent tested this yet.

and no the systems have no cdrom.

and yes i do not like the idea of having the OS on the
raid controller.

thanks for the info, tomorrow i should recieve the floppy
cable that the company forgot to install in the system
and i will try to install 2.2r3.

hope it goes well.

nate


> 
> Why are you trying to rebuild your rescue floppy?  The Linux kernel
> already includes excellent 3Ware drivers so IIANM your rescue floppy
> should already be able to access the RAID array.  If you are using such
> an old version of Debian that it predates the 3Ware products... you
> might want to consider upgrading your distro instead of sending back
> your hardware.
> 
> All of the drives are supposed to be on the RAID controller.  That's
> good design.  RAID boots fast, especially 3Ware RAID 0.
> 
> Also, if these are new systems they probably include a CD-ROM reader,
> correct? You should be able to boot directly from the Debian CD if you
> set the correct option in the BIOS.  Booting from CD is much faster and
> MUCH more reliable than booting from a floppy.
> 
> Shawn Yarbrough
>shawn@nailstorm.com
> 
> 
> 
> aphro@portal.aphroland.org wrote:
> 
>> hi
>>
>> i recieved 3 new systems today ..i was unaware of their
>> (lack) of design until i opened the case. they are
>> 1U IDE raid systems from some company called 'pogolinux'.
>> the problem is there is 4 drives, and ALL of them are on
>> the raid controller(3ware). since i am not gonna
>> be using redhat on these systems, i need to figure out
>> the best way to replace the kernel on the rescue
>> disk for debian so it will recognize the drives. either
>> that or i return the systems.  I can take care of the
>> compiling kernel and stuff no problem just would like to
>> know if there is a way to replace the kernel image.
>> last time i checked, when i mounted the rescue disk
>> all it was was a bunch of files, so could i just copy
>> my new kernel on top of the old one?(don't need to
>> worry about modules i won't be using any at first, everything
>> will be statically built). or is there something more
>> to it. last time i created a boot disk with kernel-package
>> it seemed to be a rather inflexable boot disk(didn't have
>> lilo, or at least didn't have it configured so i could do
>> other things with it, it would just boot without prompting)
>> i really don't like the idea of having the OS on raid
>> especially because we will be running them in raid0,
>> that would indeed suck to have the OS itself go down
>> because of a storage drive dieing.
>>
>> any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>> nate
>>
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