<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Martin,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I'll try the "lspci" commands
to see what it says.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">What "dmesg" should I look
for? -- when I do: dmesg | grep "sd"[ab] I get that
it finds both /sda and /sdb individually, so not detecting the RAID mode.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The "autoinstall' fails either
because of the Radeon X1200 or the "clearpart" command on Line
23. I've burned a copy of XS-160-noauto if you want me to try that.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I've been scanning the Fedora forums
for "dmraid" support, and it doesn't look like it has support
for this SB600 SATA RAID controller.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Uruguay = EduBlog/Ceibal/Greg Smith.
I am building the server to Greg's request, so whatever he is now
calling this project that is what it is.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks</font>
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<br><tt><font size=2>2008/6/5 Tony Pearson <tpearson@us.ibm.com>:<br>
> Hardware:<br>
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Nice hw! But the sata controler might not be supported. When you load<br>
F8 64-bit or Ubuntu,<br>
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- what does lspci say about the SATA controller?<br>
- what kernel module loads for it? (dmesg will name it)<br>
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> Problem 1: I boot from XS-163.iso and select "Run from
Image" (the first<br>
> choice) and it claims that "ATI Radeon 1200" is not supported,
and that it<br>
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It often complains about graphics cards. Nothing to worry about -<br>
Compiz won't be enabled on the XS ;-)<br>
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> Problem 2: I log in as "root" and run the "./olpc-install"
and it fails on<br>
> line 23 saying "Specified nonexistent disk sda in clearpart command"
with a<br>
> big red button to "reboot". (see attached JPG file: img_4751b.jpg
for<br>
> screen shot)<br>
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Recent images are "auto install" so you don't need to run olpc-install<br>
by hand...<br>
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> Would that work? If I do that, would I be better off doing
Fedora7-AMD64<br>
> instead or stay with the 32-bit version?<br>
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Unfortunately, we have a few custom packages that are compiled 32-bit<br>
only (nothing too bad, just a recompile away) - but I think your<br>
problem is with missing drivers in F7. Can you try installing F7<br>
32bits?<br>
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> Problem 3: the BIOS supports three settings: IDE, RAID and AHCI.
With<br>
> RAID, I can hit Ctrl-F to get to the FastBuild utility, and put the
two<br>
> drives into a single RAID-1 configuration, however, it does not seem
that<br>
> Linux recognizes that. With the two drives as one Logical RAID-1
drive, the<br>
> Linux treats this as separate /dev/sda and /dev/sdb drives.<br>
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No idea bout AHCI or fakeraid - sorry<br>
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Now - one point I'd like to understand better - when you say "for<br>
uruguay" you don't mean the Ceibal team, right? (From OLPC<br>
perspective, if you talk about schoolservers in Uruguay, the Ceibal<br>
team is what I think of...). You are doing this for the Edublog<br>
Uruguay team... yes?<br>
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cheers,<br>
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m<br>
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