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List:       evms-devel
Subject:    Re: [Evms-devel] evms linux question
From:       Andy Doerr <andydoerr () swbell ! net>
Date:       2004-02-25 4:58:48
Message-ID: 20040225045848.89430.qmail () web80511 ! mail ! yahoo ! com
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So I suppose the answer to the question is yes.

The bios is a custom bios also.  Apparently, The
machine was intended to be an appliance.  The bios has
no way of accessing it (short of reflashing it).

It does not recognize a CD as a valid boot device, but
it does recognize floppy and ide before the raid
device.

The ide with redhat 9 is already installed and boots
properly, so I will probably pursue that.

Thank you for your time.


--- Kevin Corry <kevcorry@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 February 2004 11:06 am, Andy Doerr
> wrote:
> > I have been asked to try and recover a system for
> a client.
> >
> > In short they have:
> >   9 ATA drives (3ware controller which masks
> drives as scsi)
> >   Custom kernel (appliance type kernel)
> >   Evms
> >   Md
> >   raid5
> >
> > Issue is that I cannot boot from the raid array
> (because of custom kernel)
> >
> > Question:
> >
> > If I introduce a boot drive to the system and
> install evms to kernel and
> > tools on that boot drive, will it be able to
> detect the raid array
> > automatically, or do I need to know what the
> original configuration was?
> 
> Grab the latest ISO image from the System-Rescue-CD
> project. It has support 
> for EVMS and sounds like exactly what you're looking
> for in this situation. 
> As long as the volumes are intact on this client's
> disks, the tools on that 
> CD should find them.
> 
> http://www.sysresccd.org/
> 
> -- 
> Kevin Corry
> kevcorry@us.ibm.com
> http://evms.sourceforge.net/
> 
> 
>
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