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From: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
To: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: SLES installation on dual controller subsystem
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:10:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1202177454.13537.22.camel@linuxchandra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <110b17190802041558y6b30e000x5a3e530f4c717d4e@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 15:58 -0800, Pradipmaya Maharana wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am trying to install SLES 10.1 on my dual controller subsystem. The
> subsystem is ALUA aware and hence shows me 2 LUNs for one while trying
> to install SLES on it.
> 
> If my LUN's preferred controller is 1 then everything goes fine, but
> if the preferred controller of the LUN I am installing OS on is 2,
> then installation goes fine but the boot fails.
> 
> It throws some errors like root (hd1,1) could not found. When I modify
> this to too(hd0,1) it boots fine.
> 
> What am I missing here?

From what you explain, looks like the kernel doesn't boot at all. You
are getting error from your BIOS/firmware.

Your BIOS/firmware may not be multipath aware.
 
> 
> Regards,
> Pradipmaya.
> 
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    Chandra Seetharaman               | Be careful what you choose....
              - sekharan@us.ibm.com   |      .......you may get it.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-05  2:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-04 23:58 SLES installation on dual controller subsystem Pradipmaya Maharana
2008-02-05  2:07 ` malahal
2008-02-05  2:10 ` Chandra Seetharaman [this message]
2008-02-05  5:46   ` Pradipmaya Maharana
2008-02-05 23:13     ` malahal

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