Trying to set up a Linux server in work
Hi there, as the title says i'm trying to set up a Linux server in work, but i'm getting stuck at the first stage...install. Just so you know the server will only be used for file storage.
I'm not a Linux newbie, i've been using it on and off for about 6 years but I have never tried to install it on a server using RAID before.
The server in question is a Dell Poweredge 1400SC. Unfortunately I can't get my head around RAID at all. The server has one 9Gig SCSI drive and two Western Digital 120Gig RAID Drives. So three hard-drives all together. The RAID card has its own setup on boot where you can set up mirroring, striping...etc. I have tried to install 3 distros, Damn Small Linux, Debian and Ubuntu, none will boot. After installing it tries to load Grub/Lilo but just reboots and starts again. I think my problems stem from partitioning during installation. Onthe partition screen it has the two WD drives, which are both exactly the same and the 9gig SCSI drive. I've let the installer parition the first WD drive itself and it seemed to go ok, but it won't boot up after install. I'm assuming Linux is picking up the RAID card as it picks up the hard-drives? Correct? As I said i know very little about RAID. In the RAID bios setup thing I have turned off any striping or mirroring incase this is the problem, but does not help. The RAID card is
"Adaptc ATA RAID 1200A" and the SCSI card is "Adaptec AIC-7899".
I just tried installing Ubuntu again and it is not rebooting but is stopping at "GRUB loading, please wait..." Maybe Grub doesn't know what to boot up?
I'm going to try installing Linux to the smaller SCSI drive now and see if it likes that
Sorry if this makes no sense or is the wrong forum, but I really need help with this. Ask if you need anymore information.
Thanks
Last edited by wakeupbomb; 03-29-2006 at 02:13 AM.
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