Michael Borck
2008-07-01 01:52:52 UTC
I am attempting to install NexentaCore 1.0.1
I have built a box consisting of 8 SATA drives and an IDE drive. The
IDE drive is used for system boot and the the 8 SATA drives for a raidz2
pool. On my motherboard there are two onboard controllers, one
controller (Intel ICH9 Southbridge ) manages 6 SATA connection, the
other controller (GIGABYTE SATA2) manages 2 SATA and 2 IDE. The BIOS
can detect all drives.
If I enable AHCI (assuming this is a good thing?) I cannot install, I
get the following error:
Error 23: When Parsing number...
If I disable AHCI on the onbaord SATA Controllers I can install Nexenta,
reboot and login. I then use "format" to determine the device name
prior to creating my raidz2 pool and notice that only 7 SATA drives
appear. Puzzling as this implies it must be integrating both controller
but comes up one drive short. A google search suggested to try
"cfgadm" to see SATA drives. In my case no drives show, just a large
number of USB records/entries.
If I then enable AHCI (which in not advised to change after installing
an OS based on google searches) I get lots of error s (one for each
drive) like the following:
WARNING: /***@0,0/pci-***@1,1/***@1 (ata1)
timeout: reset target, target=0 lun=0
Which is answered in the FAQ, so I reboot, modify the boot parameters to
include:
-B ata-dma-enabled=0
When I boot I get the initial display SunOS License (or something) and
after a little time my system reboots.
Suspecting a hardware incompatibility, I decide to try another distro, I
choose Milax Server edition. I enable AHCI, S.M.A.R.T (again assuming
this is a good thing) and the live CD boots, detects all drives, allows
me to install and create a raidz2 pool. I reboot login copy /usr into
the pool and all seems fine.
The only real difference I have notived is the the Milax is 32bit
install, as oposed to the Nexenta is 64 bit install. If it make any
difference my CPU is an Intel Celeron Dual-Core Processor, not the
flashest but should do for a home file server.
Any ideas how I can get Nexenta install. I am familiar with apt package
management and would really like to get Nexenta Core installed.
Regards,
Michael.
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I have built a box consisting of 8 SATA drives and an IDE drive. The
IDE drive is used for system boot and the the 8 SATA drives for a raidz2
pool. On my motherboard there are two onboard controllers, one
controller (Intel ICH9 Southbridge ) manages 6 SATA connection, the
other controller (GIGABYTE SATA2) manages 2 SATA and 2 IDE. The BIOS
can detect all drives.
If I enable AHCI (assuming this is a good thing?) I cannot install, I
get the following error:
Error 23: When Parsing number...
If I disable AHCI on the onbaord SATA Controllers I can install Nexenta,
reboot and login. I then use "format" to determine the device name
prior to creating my raidz2 pool and notice that only 7 SATA drives
appear. Puzzling as this implies it must be integrating both controller
but comes up one drive short. A google search suggested to try
"cfgadm" to see SATA drives. In my case no drives show, just a large
number of USB records/entries.
If I then enable AHCI (which in not advised to change after installing
an OS based on google searches) I get lots of error s (one for each
drive) like the following:
WARNING: /***@0,0/pci-***@1,1/***@1 (ata1)
timeout: reset target, target=0 lun=0
Which is answered in the FAQ, so I reboot, modify the boot parameters to
include:
-B ata-dma-enabled=0
When I boot I get the initial display SunOS License (or something) and
after a little time my system reboots.
Suspecting a hardware incompatibility, I decide to try another distro, I
choose Milax Server edition. I enable AHCI, S.M.A.R.T (again assuming
this is a good thing) and the live CD boots, detects all drives, allows
me to install and create a raidz2 pool. I reboot login copy /usr into
the pool and all seems fine.
The only real difference I have notived is the the Milax is 32bit
install, as oposed to the Nexenta is 64 bit install. If it make any
difference my CPU is an Intel Celeron Dual-Core Processor, not the
flashest but should do for a home file server.
Any ideas how I can get Nexenta install. I am familiar with apt package
management and would really like to get Nexenta Core installed.
Regards,
Michael.
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