Install RHEL 4 into IBM x346

[Rick Stevens]

On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 09:47 +0700, Milis wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I am new comer in this list, and now I need some knoledge share for
> any one has experince for installling RHEL 4 into IBM X346,
> 
> I have 2 IBm x346 for building into cluster system, in the IBM x346
> board I have raid level 1 config, and its config through IBM
> ServeRaid, but fortunately while I install RHEL 4 into this server, my
> logical hdd known as NOT RAID 1 but as INDEPENDENT HDD,
> 
> I ahve been try to use disk image from IBm AND/OR from adaptec, but
> they still known as INDPENDENT HDD.
> 
> pls share your knowledge for solve this problem.
> Thanks a lot for your knowledge.
> 
> Note : I've been update all BMC and BIOS as IBM Instruction on their
> web site.

If the IBM is doing hardware RAID1, then the two drives will appear
as a single drive to RHEL.  In other words, RHEL should only see
/dev/hda, which is the RAID1 representation of the two physical drives.

If it's still showing up as two drives (/dev/hda and /dev/hdb), then
the RAID1 isn't set up properly at the BIOS level and you need to fix
that.  When you create the RAID1, the BIOS should take a quite a while
to build the RAID volume.  It generally isn't instantaneous.

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