Trouble adding SATA HDDs to Etch box (ProLiant ML110 G4) that boots from USB flash drive
Dear all,
I have a Hewlett Packard ProLiant ML110 G4 running Etch that currently has no HDDs, just a 4GB USB flash drive on which Etch is installed. It boots fine, and I have no problems with it. However, I want to add four 500GB SATA HDDs to the box; my intention is to make these RAID 5 and use the machine as a file server.*
So I've now connected the HDDs to the motherboard, and now the boot process won't complete. It halts for some time at a line that reads:
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached SCSI removable disk sde
and then it prints the following lines:
Done.
Check root= bootarg cat /proc/cmdline
or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev
Alert! /dev/sda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
BusyBox v.1.13 (Debian 1:1.13-4) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
(initramfs)
Does anyone know how I ought to overcome this?
Many thanks,
Sam
*N.B. I'm keeping the OS on the flash drive so that the HDDs needn't spin up
unless they are being written to or read from, hopefully reducing noise
output and power consumption.
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