<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Greg,</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
The XS hardware is up and running, and now am encountering some software
issues that I may need help from the server-devel list to resolve. </font><font size=3><br>
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Hardware:</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
V3-M2A690G barebones PC with M2A-VM motherboard, power supply and tower
case, <br>
The M2A-VM motherboard has ATI SB600 RAID controller, ATI Radeon 1200 Graphics,
8 USB ports, built-in NIC.</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
AMD Athlon64 X2 dual-core 2.3 Ghz processor with heatsink/fan</font><font size=3>
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Two extra NIC cards (PCI)</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif">10/100
with RJ-45 ports<br>
One DVD-RW drive, attached on primary IDE-Master</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
Two SATA drives, 160GB each, connected on SATA1 and SATA2. <br>
One 2GB DIMM.</font><font size=3> <br>
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I had it almost all together yesterday in four hours, but had to go back
to the store to get an extra SATA power cable adapter and return an extra
SATA signal cable.</font><font size=3> I took photos, so I might be able
to document the process for future hardware builds.<br>
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The XS-163.iso would freeze because there was no "Partition Table"
on the disks. I was able to fully install "64-bit Fedora Core
8-AMD64" on the system, which was enough to put partition table on
/dev/sda and format an ext3 file system. After that, I was able to
fully install "32-bit Ubuntu 8.04" on the system. Both
run in full graphics mode, and I was able to test all the memory, verify
ethernet connectivity, etc.</font><font size=3> <br>
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Problem 1: I boot from XS-163.iso and select "Run from Image"
(the first choice) and it claims that "ATI Radeon 1200" is not
supported, and that it will go into text-only mode for the install. I
figure this is not really a problem, since this is a text-only server eventually.
I suspect there are Radeon 1200 drivers on later versions of Linux,
so it might be something I can fix after the fact.</font><font size=3>
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Problem 2: I log in as "root" and run the "./olpc-install"
and it fails on line 23 saying "Specified nonexistent disk sda in
clearpart command" with a big red button to "reboot". (see
attached JPG file: img_4751b.jpg for screen shot)</font><font size=3>
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</font><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Rebooting without the XS-ISO cd results
in running the current "32-bit Ubuntu 8.04" that I had installed
previously, so it looks like it didn't wipe out anything. I tried
this with both "XS-163" and "XS-150" (from back in
February) and got similar failure messages.</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif">
My next try will be the "XS-160-noauto" ISO file. </font><font size=3>
</font><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I could also try to do the "kickstart"
manually? Would that work? If I do that, would I be better
off doing Fedora7-AMD64 instead or stay with the 32-bit version?</font><font size=3>
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<br><font size=3>Problem 3: the BIOS supports three settings: IDE,
RAID and AHCI. With RAID, I can hit Ctrl-F to get to the FastBuild
utility, and put the two drives into a single RAID-1 configuration, however,
it does not seem that Linux recognizes that. With the two drives
as one Logical RAID-1 drive, the Linux treats this as separate /dev/sda
and /dev/sdb drives.</font>
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<br><font size=3>I found this link, indicating that the ATI SB600 "fakeraid"
support through the "dmraid" device mapper is supported in AHCI
mode, but if I say AHCI on the BIOS setting, it treats the two drives separately.</font>
<br><a href=http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html#ahci><font size=3 color=blue><u>http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html#ahci</u></font></a><font size=3><br>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I could instead go for a software-based
Linux LVM mirroring. In that case, I might use the BIOS=AHCI setting,
and then set up the LVM, but that is different than the LVM setup in that
base XS kickstart file.</font>
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Please advise.</font><font size=3> </font><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><br>
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